{"id":1035,"date":"2010-03-03T21:59:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T01:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2010-03-03T21:59:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T01:59:36","slug":"stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in stories.  The world has enough dogma.  It&#8217;s stories we need more of, stories that reverence the still, small voice that sings our life.  As Anthony de Mello observed, &#8220;The shortest distance between a human being and Truth is a story.&#8221;  Jesus, himself, told stories about the most common things in the world: a lost sheep, a seed that falls on rocky ground, a woman who sweeps her house in search of a coin, a man whose son runs away from home.<\/p>\n<p>All personal theology should begin with the words: <em>Let me tell you a story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sue Monk Kidd, <em>Firstlight, <\/em>p. 34-35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in stories. The world has enough dogma. It&#8217;s stories we need more of, stories that reverence the still, small voice that sings our life. As Anthony de Mello observed, &#8220;The shortest distance between a human being and Truth is a story.&#8221; Jesus, himself, told stories about the most common things in the world: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}