{"id":1411,"date":"2020-12-16T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2020-12-16T15:36:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T15:36:16","slug":"episode-35-finding-beauty-in-the-chaos-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/episode-35-finding-beauty-in-the-chaos-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 35: Finding Beauty in the Chaos of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Optimism + 2020<\/h5>\n<p>This year was full of ups and downs and in the final episode of 2020 the hosts look back at\u00a0a few\u00a0things that brought them joy and hope in a tumultuous time.\u00a0Chelsea talks about finding time to get through her reading list\u2013all 63 books and counting! Andrew discusses an article he found on the history of people coming together during tough times\u00a0along with\u00a0the research behind facing issues head on. Owen explains how poetry helped him stay steady this year and invites\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seanpetrie.com\/\">Sean Petrie<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/typewriterrodeo.com\/\">Typewriter Rodeo<\/a>\u00a0to sum up 2020 in a spontaneous poem.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=42519733&amp;theme=light&amp;cover_image_url=false&amp;playlist=show&amp;autoplay=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New episodes of Good Newscast are published every month.<\/p>\n<p>For more inspiration and thought-starters around optimism, sign up for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/paidpost.texasmonthly.com\/sponsor\/frost\/texas-optimism-project\/good-newsletter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bi-weekly Good Newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk money! Frost Bank&#8217;s Opt for Optimism campaign has always been about finding more ways we can help Americans activate the positive relationship between optimism and financial health. Read more of the research behind managing your money like an optimist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optforoptimism.com\/optimism\/letstalkmoney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimism + 2020 This year was full of ups and downs and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}