{"id":123,"date":"2010-01-26T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/01\/fragility-and-hope.html"},"modified":"2010-01-26T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T08:23:00","slug":"fragility-and-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/01\/fragility-and-hope.html","title":{"rendered":"Fragility and Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you will remember this article from two years back, when I was pregnant from William and had an editorial published first for First Things and then the Philadelphia Inquirer. But in case you haven’t read it before, here it is again: “All of Life is Fragile and Uncertain<\/a>“, published this time on a blog called “Bloom,” for families with children with disabilities. And even if you have read the article before, go there to get a cute photo of Penny and William on William’s first birthday, and poke around–there’s some great stuff on Bloom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of you will remember this article from two years back, when I was pregnant from William and had an editorial published first for First Things and then the Philadelphia Inquirer. 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