{"id":41893,"date":"2020-03-26T18:20:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41893"},"modified":"2020-03-26T18:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:20:03","slug":"glimmer-shines-through-the-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41893","title":{"rendered":"Glimmer shines through the gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23healthcrisis%20%23inittogether&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41858\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-4-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all gloomy out there. Yes, we&#8217;re struggling with a monumental health crisis, the likes of which none of us has experienced.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty to smile about in this time of trouble, turmoil and tempest.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I essentially are following all the rules laid down by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other local officials. We&#8217;re keeping our distance from the rest of the world; we venture out only to go to the grocery store; we wave at our neighbors from across way out yonder; we are Facetiming with our sons, our daughter-in-law and granddaughter. No touchy-feely, not even with them!<\/p>\n<p>We also are taking time to complete some household tasks.<\/p>\n<p>We finished one today: We cleaned and rearranged our garage. That&#8217;s one item crossed off my wife&#8217;s to-do list.<\/p>\n<p>There will be more.<\/p>\n<p>We also are spending some time reinforcing each other, talking about issues, associated problems that might occur. We also are worrying terribly about all of our loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>We have siblings who live a good distance away and they all have underlying health issues that cause us concern.\u00a0They&#8217;re all smart enough to do the right thing to ensure they remain coronavirus-free. We remain hopeful that we&#8217;ll all be intact when we come out on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>So \u2026 we trudge on with smiles on our faces while looking for the glimmer peeking through the gloom.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23healthcrisis%20%23inittogether&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not all gloomy out there. Yes, we&#8217;re struggling with a monumental health crisis, the likes of which none of us has experienced. There is plenty to smile about in this time of trouble, turmoil and tempest. My wife and I essentially are following all the rules laid down by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glimmer shines through the gloom<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9236,9261],"class_list":["post-41893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41894,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41893\/revisions\/41894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}