{"id":184,"date":"2023-05-11T02:16:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T02:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:19:07","slug":"hope-crushed-beneath-progress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-5\/hope-crushed-beneath-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Crushed Beneath Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">by Edward Lee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"TextLayer-container\">\n<div class=\"textLayer\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-185 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2023\/05\/Hope-Crushed-Beneath-Progress-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"shade of green, blue, black and white in both brushwork and smooth textures\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2023\/05\/Hope-Crushed-Beneath-Progress-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2023\/05\/Hope-Crushed-Beneath-Progress-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2023\/05\/Hope-Crushed-Beneath-Progress-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(digital painting, 6000 x 9000)<\/p>\n<div class=\"textLayer\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"x_x_yiv7972332419x_ydp31f4287aMsoNormal\">Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, non-fiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including <em>The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen <\/em>and<em> Smiths Knoll.<\/em>\u00a0 He is currently working on two photography collections: &#8216;Lying Down With The Dead&#8217; and &#8216;There Is A Beauty In Broken Things&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_yiv7972332419x_ydp31f4287aMsoNormal\">He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_yiv7972332419x_ydp31f4287aMsoNormal\">His blog\/website can be found at <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/edwardmlee.wordpress.com\/. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fedwardmlee.wordpress.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ckuhnc%40msudenver.edu%7C90687ad7cda04da0738508db51ae227a%7C03309ca417334af9a73cf18cc841325c%7C1%7C0%7C638193580611157002%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=IU45wPGhPDQTvVCYpqyKeZr1H25hPerlZPfjEP0NmQ8%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"1\">https:\/\/edwardmlee.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"x_x_yiv7972332419x_ydp31f4287aMsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-5\/toc-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">table of contents<\/a> ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Lee &nbsp; (digital painting, 6000 x 9000) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, non-fiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-184","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}