{"id":2565,"date":"2014-10-08T06:50:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2014-10-08T06:50:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:50:18","slug":"chasing-hope-by-kathryn-cushman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/chasing-hope-by-kathryn-cushman\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Hope by Kathryn Cushman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"17350818\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1374635032l\/17350818.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chasing-Hope-Kathryn-Cushman-ebook\/dp\/B00CIUJY7K\/ref=sr_1_1_ha?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1412764769&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=chasing+hope\">Chasing Hope by Kathryn Cushman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever had a dream that was lost? Did your faith suffer because of your lost dream?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sabrina has transferred colleges because it&#8217;s hard for her to stay at her former school. A former star runner, she finds it hard to be around others who excel at sports, and since her dream has been shattered, she&#8217;s unsure about how to put the pieces back together in her life.<\/p>\n<p>Her faith has dwindled, and her life drastically changes when arrangements are made for her to coach a Brandy, a juvenile delinquent\/talented runner. Brandy&#8217;s off-putting attitude makes Sabrina cringe, plus, it&#8217;s initially hard for her to embrace the role of coach.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing Hope is about trying to strengthen your faith after your dreams have been lost. I liked how the theme of running played throughout the story. The characters were real and vivid and Koen, Sabrina&#8217;s boyfriend, sounded like a really nice, good-looking guy! The romance was not the main focus of the story, but, it hovered in the background.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So have you ever had a dream that was lost? How\u00a0 did you deal with it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chasing Hope by Kathryn Cushman Have you ever had a dream that was lost? Did your faith suffer because of your lost dream? Sabrina has transferred colleges because it&#8217;s hard for her to stay at her former school. A former star runner, she finds it hard to be around others who excel at sports, and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-Fn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}