{"id":704,"date":"2009-01-11T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-disaster\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T17:55:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:55:06","slug":"word-of-the-day-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UGH!<\/p>\n<p>That was my first thought, anyway, especially after yesterday&#8217;s word!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disaster strikes at its own time. It is so overwhelming that we can nothing other than accept it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think this is the most important thing, other than disaster is actually about change. It instigates or inspires or incites change, change we have to accept.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disaster is natural. It is not the curse of the gods, it is not punishment. Disaster results from the interplay of forces&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disasters may well change us deeply, but hey will pass. We must keep to our deeper convictions and remember our goals. Whether we remain ash or become the phoenix is up to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UGH! That was my first thought, anyway, especially after yesterday&#8217;s word! &#8220;Disaster strikes at its own time. It is so overwhelming that we can nothing other than accept it.&#8221; Personally, I think this is the most important thing, other than disaster is actually about change. It instigates or inspires or incites change, change we have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-disaster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the Day: Disaster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[311,347],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-creativity","tag-word-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}