{"id":189,"date":"2006-04-27T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shinnphoto.com\/andrewandlisa.org\/?p=189"},"modified":"2006-04-29T00:09:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T07:09:57","slug":"ray-not-a-ray-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Ray?  Not a Ray of hope."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa and I watched Ray on Sunday.  I feel like we were watching <a href=\"http:\/\/alshinn.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/walk-line-doesnt.html\">Walk the Line<\/a> again. Different talented, tortured singer, different skin color, same struggles with pain, addiction, and hopelessness. The movie ended with Ray Charles&#8217;s alleged recovery from his drug addiction. Like Johnny Cash&#8217;s story in Walk the Line, the postscript claimed that they all lived happily ever after, implying that he was drug-free for the rest of his life. I don&#8217;t know Ray Charles (apart from his wonderful music), and I can&#8217;t comment on the veracity of that statement with any authority. But I have a tendency to suspect men who lie to their own families and even themselves about the depth and nature of their addiction when they claim to be clean.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, may I never be famous enough to live like that. The more of these movies I see, the more I come to see fame as a curse, and not a blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoying relative anonymity,<br \/>\nAndrew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa and I watched Ray on Sunday. I feel like we were watching Walk the Line again. Different talented, tortured singer, different skin color, same struggles with pain, addiction, and hopelessness. The movie ended with Ray Charles&#8217;s alleged recovery from his drug addiction. Like Johnny Cash&#8217;s story in Walk the Line, the postscript claimed that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ray?  Not a Ray of hope.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdZlL-33","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}