{"id":2300,"date":"2004-06-23T12:58:19","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T12:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2004\/06\/23\/heaven-is-lucky\/"},"modified":"2004-06-23T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T12:58:19","slug":"heaven-is-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2300","title":{"rendered":"heaven-is-lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/US\/GoodMorningAmerica\/mattie_stepanek_040622-1.html%22\">Mattie Stepanek<\/a> is no longer among us, and this saddens me.  You want to talk about amazing, that boy had it all.  I never read his poetry, but I wish I had.  I even thought it was pretty impressive that he was published and not even a teenager.<br \/>\nI never met Mattie, but I could relate to him because he was someone like me.  He was a person who never let his problems get the best of him.  Rather, he used his hidden abilities and turned them into something profound and beautiful.  Everytime he was on <i>Good Morning America<\/i> I would stop whatever I was doing and just watch him talk.  He was just a child after all, but as children we have such dreams.  It&#8217;s important  to always strive for what we want and never let go even if everyone is saying, &quot;No, you can&#8217;t.&quot;<br \/>\nI remember when they surprised him with the visit from former President Jimmy Carter.  The look on his face was just priceless.<br \/>\nYou could tell that the anchors were near tears on GMA when they announced his passing this morning, and I&#8217;m heartbroken.  He was such a special boy, and where ever he is now, I hope he is at peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattie Stepanek is no longer among us, and this saddens me. You want to talk about amazing, that boy had it all. I never read his poetry, but I wish I had. I even thought it was pretty impressive that he was published and not even a teenager. I never met Mattie, but I could [&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-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}