{"id":2036,"date":"2011-08-25T23:20:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T03:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2011-08-25T23:25:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T03:25:43","slug":"fighting-cynicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Cynicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I begin simply asking for help, I have become like a little child again.  I&#8217;ve stopped becoming cynical.  Oddly enough, my prayer is answered almost immediately because in the act of praying I&#8217;ve become like a child.  The cure for cynicism is to become like a little child again.  Instead of critiquing others&#8217; stories, watch the story our Father is weaving.<\/p>\n<p>To hear a good story, we need a simple, childlike wonder&#8230;.  The cynic is never fooled, so he is never delighted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Paul E. Miller, <em>A Praying Life<\/em>, p. 86-87<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as I begin simply asking for help, I have become like a little child again. I&#8217;ve stopped becoming cynical. Oddly enough, my prayer is answered almost immediately because in the act of praying I&#8217;ve become like a child. The cure for cynicism is to become like a little child again. Instead of critiquing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","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=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}