{"id":1297,"date":"2010-11-10T22:56:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T02:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2010-11-10T22:56:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T02:56:28","slug":"giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The act of giving best reminds me of my place on earth.  All of us live here by the goodness and grace of God &#8212; like the birds of the air and the flowers of the field, Jesus said.  Those creations do not worry about future security and safety; neither should we.  Giving offers me a way to express my faith and confidence that God will care for me just as God cares for the sparrow and lily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Philip Yancey, <em>Grace Notes<\/em>, p. 359<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The act of giving best reminds me of my place on earth. All of us live here by the goodness and grace of God &#8212; like the birds of the air and the flowers of the field, Jesus said. Those creations do not worry about future security and safety; neither should we. Giving offers me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13,20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god","category-gratitude","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","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=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}