{"id":111,"date":"2007-09-26T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/09\/26\/a-cock-eyed-optimist\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T00:25:13","slug":"a-cock-eyed-optimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"A Cock-Eyed Optimist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is far easier, it seems to me, to become a cynic than it is to work beyond disappointments and rise above wounds.\u00c2\u00a0 We must be willing to trust again and expect better than we&#8217;ve received.\u00c2\u00a0 True cynics who believe they have become experts at seeing through people have actually succumbed to a different kind of blindness.\u00c2\u00a0 If we want love, it is better to look for the good in people, even if it means being somewhat of a cock-eyed optimist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Leo Buscaglia, <em>Born for Love,<\/em> p. 81<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is far easier, it seems to me, to become a cynic than it is to work beyond disappointments and rise above wounds.\u00c2\u00a0 We must be willing to trust again and expect better than we&#8217;ve received.\u00c2\u00a0 True cynics who believe they have become experts at seeing through people have actually succumbed to a different kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","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=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}