{"id":1679,"date":"2016-04-05T09:16:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/officially-next-year\/"},"modified":"2016-04-05T09:16:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T13:16:05","slug":"officially-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/officially-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Officially Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/saint-baseball-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Image courtesy of Catholic Trivia Blogspot\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>By Sr. Nun Other<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Baseball season opening day. Defined by colorful uniforms against green grass. Flags unfurled and the Star Spangled Banner sung by someone famous or a regular person deserving a chance. A Blue Angel flyover, and the two best words in all of baseball, &#8220;Play Ball!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>And right there, lurking in the background, are the naysayers. They&#8217;ve already predicted the third baseman (who they loved three weeks ago) is a huge mistake, the #2 starting pitcher will breakdown mid-season, and at best, your team (fill in the blank) might have a shot at the wild card.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Don&#8217;t let them (whoever they are) pick-pocket your hope. They\u2013we\u2013make up stories because really, we don&#8217;t know what God intends and just might do. Our job is to hope, believe, anticipate and participate in a well-planned outcome that leads to ultimate good.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/saint-baseball-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5626507\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5626509 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/saint-baseball-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of Catholic Trivia Blogspot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Follow us<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/a-yMUb4fNrE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other Baseball season opening day. Defined by colorful uniforms against green grass. Flags unfurled and the Star Spangled Banner sung by someone famous or a regular person deserving a chance. A Blue Angel flyover, and the two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/officially-next-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}