{"id":1705,"date":"2011-05-04T23:31:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T03:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2011-05-04T23:35:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T03:35:36","slug":"book-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"Book-Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good books instruct me about the world.  I learn information; I gain perspective.  I get a handle on history or people who have influenced the world.  I have more breadth in my thinking &#8212; not a clinical detachment, but an involvement of myself so that it translates into my life.<\/p>\n<p>I travel to places I might never visit in any other way except in a book.  I solve problems in my life by sharing in the lives of others.  I grow spiritually by encountering the wisdom of people who have thought through issues that still cause me to struggle.  I share in the adventures of others and widen my own experiences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gladys Hunt, <em>Honey for a Woman&#8217;s Heart<\/em>, p. 26-27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good books instruct me about the world. I learn information; I gain perspective. I get a handle on history or people who have influenced the world. I have more breadth in my thinking &#8212; not a clinical detachment, but an involvement of myself so that it translates into my life. I travel to places I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,35,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-growth","category-life","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}