{"id":42192,"date":"2020-04-12T01:15:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T01:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42192"},"modified":"2020-04-12T01:15:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T01:15:39","slug":"clinging-to-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42192","title":{"rendered":"Clinging to good news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23CollinCounty%20%23goodnews&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pandemic-300x200-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42193\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pandemic-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find myself clinging desperately to snippets of good news that are coming forth.<\/p>\n<p>New York officials report that the number of hospital emergency room admissions is starting to level off; the increase in deaths from the coronavirus is decreasing; some nations are beginning to lift restrictions; the projected death count in the United States is being reduced; social distancing is doing its job.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I sit in our house in Collin County, Texas. Our son and his family in a next-door community are isolating themselves, too. Our son in the Texas Panhandle is restricting his own movement per the warnings from the state and local officials.<\/p>\n<p>We have been buried under an avalanche of frightening news. The pandemic that ignited in China and moved quickly to Europe has frightened us.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re getting morsels of news that give us a glimmer of hope.<\/p>\n<p>But hold on! We aren&#8217;t nearly home free. The moment when the dust clears still appears to be a long way off. However, the moment is beginning to take shape way out there in the distance. It is getting a little more defined.<\/p>\n<p>I am not na\u00efve to think that the end of the crisis is at hand. I am enough of an optimist, though, to hope that the good-news nuggets we are getting will be more prevalent in the weeks to come than the avalanche of tragedy that has buried us.<\/p>\n<p>As they say, every journey we take begins with a small step.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23CollinCounty%20%23goodnews&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself clinging desperately to snippets of good news that are coming forth. New York officials report that the number of hospital emergency room admissions is starting to level off; the increase in deaths from the coronavirus is decreasing; some nations are beginning to lift restrictions; the projected death count in the United States &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clinging to good news<\/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-42192","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\/42192","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=42192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42194,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42192\/revisions\/42194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}