{"id":1430,"date":"2011-01-29T00:53:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T04:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2011-01-29T00:56:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T04:56:02","slug":"changing-the-world-with-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"Changing the World with Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though it was not part of a lesson plan, it imparted a truth that left me spellbound.  Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers.  From the beginning, I&#8217;ve searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible yearnings, and their most soul-killing doubts.  I trust the great novelists to teach me how to live, how to feel, how to love and hate.  I trust them to show me the dangers I will encounter on the road as I stagger on my own troubled passage through a complicated life of books that try to teach me how to die.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Pat Conroy, <em>My Reading Life<\/em>, p. 10-11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it was not part of a lesson plan, it imparted a truth that left me spellbound. Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers. From the beginning, I&#8217;ve searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","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=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}