{"id":1791,"date":"2011-05-21T21:39:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T01:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2011-05-21T21:43:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T01:43:22","slug":"twinkle-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1791","title":{"rendered":"Twinkle Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twinkle lights are the perfect metaphor for joy.  Joy is not a constant.  It comes to us in moments &#8212; often ordinary moments.  Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we&#8217;re too busy chasing down extraordinary moments.  Other times we&#8217;re so afraid of the dark that we don&#8217;t dare let ourselves enjoy the light&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brene Brown, <em>The Gifts of Imperfection<\/em>, p. 80-81<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twinkle lights are the perfect metaphor for joy. Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments &#8212; often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we&#8217;re too busy chasing down extraordinary moments. Other times we&#8217;re so afraid of the dark that we don&#8217;t dare let ourselves enjoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,20,2,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-gratitude","category-inspiration","category-joy","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","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=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}