{"id":79,"date":"2009-04-16T22:04:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T06:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.deserthillspc.org\/?p=79"},"modified":"2009-04-16T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T06:04:59","slug":"79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/16\/79\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Boyle is a Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I heard about Susan Boyle, the singing sensation who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wnmbJzH93NU&amp;feature=related\">wowed the judges<\/a> on <em>Britain&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em>. (Her story is summarized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.uk\/features\/featuresopinon\/display.var.2501746.0.The_beauty_that_matters_is_always_on_the_inside.php\">here<\/a>, and it&#8217;s worth reading.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a touching reminder how much we judge people. All the time, and to our shame.<\/p>\n<p>But God is good, and occasionally lets us see in one person, like Susan Boyle, the potential that is in everyone. And what a joy it is when we do get to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I heard about Susan Boyle, the singing sensation who wowed the judges on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent. (Her story is summarized here, and it&#8217;s worth reading.) It&#8217;s a touching reminder how much we judge people. All the time, and to our shame. But God is good, and occasionally lets us see in one person, like &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/16\/79\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,60],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-music","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}