{"id":9546,"date":"2020-08-19T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=9546"},"modified":"2020-08-10T10:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:53:48","slug":"forgive-prompt-519","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/forgive-prompt-519\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgive. Prompt #519"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Invictus.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9547\" width=\"178\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Invictus.png 252w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Invictus-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invictus_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">Invictus<\/a>\u00a0is a 2009\u00a0film starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story is based on the book\u00a0<em>Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation<\/em>\u00a0about the events in South Africa during the 1995 Rugby World Cup. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After spending 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela was released and elected as South Africa\u2019s first black president, he preached reconciliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he decided to support the country\u2019s rugby team &#8212; long a symbol of white oppression &#8212; his countrymen were stunned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cForgiveness liberates the soul,\u201d Mandela explains to a crowd. \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s such a powerful weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prompt<\/strong>: Forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Write about  the concept of forgiveness or absolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Write about someone you could forgive, or someone who might forgive you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invictus\u00a0is a 2009\u00a0film starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The story is based on the book\u00a0Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation\u00a0about the events in South Africa during the 1995 Rugby World Cup. \u00a0 After spending 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela was released and elected as South Africa\u2019s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2tY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9550,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions\/9550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}