{"id":267,"date":"2024-01-03T00:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T23:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilraps.nl\/?p=267"},"modified":"2024-01-08T02:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T01:23:24","slug":"two-short-essays-one-of-hope-and-one-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilraps.nl\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Two short essays: one of hope and one of love"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"267\" class=\"elementor elementor-267\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b2e837 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3b2e837\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49bb3ea elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"49bb3ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Two essays full of meaning<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3456aa4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3456aa4\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b58956 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6b58956\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Being subscribed to the Honestly podcast with Bari Weiss I listened to the December 25th episode where two essays were read aloud by the authors themselves.\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/free-press-high-school-essay-contest-winner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The first<\/a> is from a teenage girl, 17 years of age and apparently a certain kind of wisdom befell her, as her essay conveys. 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