{"id":9595,"date":"2026-04-16T09:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=9595"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:10:14","slug":"before-you-get-your-hopes-up-a-lesson-in-self-worth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=9595","title":{"rendered":"Before You Get Your Hopes Up: A Lesson in Self-Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"118\" data-end=\"216\">At a restaurant, a man sat down and said,\u00a0<em data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"214\">\u201cBefore you get your hopes up, I have a girlfriend.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1681912\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"218\" data-end=\"320\">I smiled and replied:\u00a0<em data-start=\"240\" data-end=\"318\">\u201cBefore you get your hopes up, I have dreams bigger than this conversation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"322\" data-end=\"490\">That moment reminded me \u2014 our worth isn\u2019t defined by anyone\u2019s assumptions. The most powerful thing we can do is stand firm in who we are and put our own dreams first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a restaurant, a man sat down and said,\u00a0\u201cBefore you get your hopes up, I have a girlfriend.\u201d I smiled and replied:\u00a0\u201cBefore you get your hopes up, I have dreams bigger than this conversation.\u201d That moment reminded me \u2014 our worth isn\u2019t defined by anyone\u2019s assumptions. The most powerful thing we can do is stand &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9597,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions\/9597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}