{"id":24,"date":"2004-05-25T00:29:45","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T05:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=24"},"modified":"2004-12-29T00:39:58","modified_gmt":"2004-12-29T05:39:58","slug":"theres-some-good-in-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Some Good In This World&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished watching &#8220;The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers&#8221; a few minutes ago. One of the final scenes of the movie, a scene with Frodo and Sam, struck me once again as a powerful scene with a timeless message:<\/p>\n<p>Sam: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened.\u00c2\u00a0 But in the end, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.\u00c2\u00a0 Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.<\/p>\n<p>Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?<\/p>\n<p>Sam: That there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth fighting for.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished watching &#8220;The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers&#8221; a few minutes ago. One of the final scenes of the movie, a scene with Frodo and Sam, struck me once again as a powerful scene with a timeless message: Sam: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}