{"id":1619,"date":"2011-05-26T21:35:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T05:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2011-05-26T21:35:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T05:35:57","slug":"soul-surfer-by-bethany-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/26\/soul-surfer-by-bethany-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see the movie <em>Soul Surfer<\/em>, but my friend lend me the book.<\/p>\n<p>Bethany tells her true story of losing her arm in a shark attack while she was surfing, and how she came back to continue to pursue her dream as a professional surfer. Her story is very inspiration to remind us that no matter what you&#8217;ve lost, don&#8217;t give up on living. Have courage to overcome your fears, then discover and live out God&#8217;s plan for you.<\/p>\n<p>She says, &#8220;Don&#8217;t put all your hope and faith into something that could suddenly and easily disappear. And honestly that&#8217;s almost anything. The only thing that will never go away, that will never fail you, is your faith in God&#8230;so I think this was God&#8217;s plan for me all along. I am not saying that God <em>made<\/em> the shark bite me. I think He knew it would happen, and He made a way for my life to be happy and meaningful <em>in spite<\/em> of it happening.&#8221; That&#8217;s good stuff, especially coming from a young girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t see the movie Soul Surfer, but my friend lend me the book. Bethany tells her true story of losing her arm in a shark attack while she was surfing, and how she came back to continue to pursue her dream as a professional surfer. Her story is very inspiration to remind us that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}