{"id":446,"date":"2024-02-28T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/02\/28\/thoughts-on-inspiration\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:38:45","slug":"thoughts-on-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/02\/28\/thoughts-on-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3851\" class=\"elementor elementor-3851\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-703d3724 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"703d3724\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 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I only want to inspire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 24px;line-height: 1.6;color: #002029;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size: 19px\">If you exhibit visible MS symptoms then someone, somewhere, sometime may have called you an \u201cinspiration.\u201d I\u2019ve been called worse, but I still don\u2019t like it\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 24px;line-height: 1.6;color: #002029;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size: 19px\"><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 26px;color: #000000\">To read my full blog post at MultipleSclerosis.net<\/span><span style=\"color: #7a7a7a;font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 26px\">,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 26px;color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" 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