{"id":26,"date":"2020-11-28T23:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T23:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=26"},"modified":"2020-12-19T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T17:18:24","slug":"virginie-kortekaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Virginie Kortekaas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Doin&#8217; It<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a gloomy, rainy walk in North Carolina, I was struck by the beauty of a ray of sunlight penetrating a shallow and muddy body of water. It created an explosion of colours that stopped me in my tracks. When my eyes focused more, I noticed the two frogs &#8216;doin\u2019it&#8217; -creating new life. 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