{"id":73,"date":"2023-09-27T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:36:30","slug":"i-still-want-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/27\/i-still-want-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"I STILL Want to Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>X-Files is probably my favorite television show of all time.  No contest.  So when I saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/14C5A\/production\/_130528058_gettyimages-1556568244-1.jpg.webp\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/14C5A\/production\/_130528058_gettyimages-1556568244-1.jpg.webp\">lapel pin<\/a> worn by someone at a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-66320498\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-66320498\">UFO hearing<\/a>, I instantly wanted to paint it.  I&#8217;m just learning  to paint.  Learn by doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i-still-want-to-believe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i-still-want-to-believe.jpg 600w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/i-still-want-to-believe-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the &#8220;STILL&#8221; in the message.  To me, it&#8217;s a reminder that it was and still is the best show that ever happened.  Sadly though, it probably doesn&#8217;t belong on the air these days.  Conspiracy theories are a plague now, so I&#8217;m hard pressed to want it used for entertainment.  But there was a time.  I still want to believe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-Files is probably my favorite television show of all time. No contest. So when I saw the lapel pin worn by someone at a recent UFO hearing, I instantly wanted to paint it. I&#8217;m just learning to paint. Learn by doing. I love the &#8220;STILL&#8221; in the message. To me, it&#8217;s a reminder that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}