{"id":273,"date":"2007-12-26T18:05:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T22:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/12\/26\/miraculous-present-moments\/"},"modified":"2007-12-26T18:05:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T22:05:31","slug":"miraculous-present-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Miraculous Present Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever we do anything well, when we do our best, embracing an activity wholeheartedly, we are satisfied and energized.\u00c2\u00a0 Tucking a child into bed and saying a prayer after reading a story is a small act of grace with lasting benefits.\u00c2\u00a0 Rituals can never be rushed or be skipped.\u00c2\u00a0 The joy is in our instantaneous recognition of miraculous present moments.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t plan it.\u00c2\u00a0 Live it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Alexandra Stoddard, <em>Choosing Happiness, <\/em>p. 16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever we do anything well, when we do our best, embracing an activity wholeheartedly, we are satisfied and energized.\u00c2\u00a0 Tucking a child into bed and saying a prayer after reading a story is a small act of grace with lasting benefits.\u00c2\u00a0 Rituals can never be rushed or be skipped.\u00c2\u00a0 The joy is in our instantaneous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}