{"id":2741,"date":"2012-08-10T18:43:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T22:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2012-08-10T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T22:46:10","slug":"the-promise-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"The Promise of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was right.  There is always an answer to despair, and that is the promise of beauty waiting in the future.  I know it is coming because I have seen and felt beauty in the past.  Stacks of apricots in Rome; raccoon footprints in snow; piles of oyster shells bleached white over winter; lime green leaves of spring; burnt orange leaves of fall; Vermeer&#8217;s <em>Young Woman with a Water Pitcher<\/em>; the old stone walls of Connecticut winding around my yard; Venice at dusk, rose-colored from sky and sea:  memories of beauty, sometimes experienced alone and sometimes shared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Nina Sankovitch, <em>Tolstoy and the Purple Chair<\/em>, p. 43<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was right. There is always an answer to despair, and that is the promise of beauty waiting in the future. I know it is coming because I have seen and felt beauty in the past. Stacks of apricots in Rome; raccoon footprints in snow; piles of oyster shells bleached white over winter; lime green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","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=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}