{"id":2462,"date":"2012-03-31T23:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T03:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2012-03-31T23:22:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T03:22:30","slug":"the-older-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2462","title":{"rendered":"The Older Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.<br \/>\nA distorted understanding of God,<br \/>\nclung to with white knuckles and fierce determination,<br \/>\ncan leave a person outside the party,<br \/>\nmad about a goat that was never gotten,<br \/>\nwithout the thriving life Jesus insists is right here, all around us,<br \/>\nall the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rob Bell, <em>Love Wins<\/em>, p. 183<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We shape our God, and then our God shapes us. A distorted understanding of God, clung to with white knuckles and fierce determination, can leave a person outside the party, mad about a goat that was never gotten, without the thriving life Jesus insists is right here, all around us, all the time. &#8212; Rob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","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=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}