{"id":2745,"date":"2012-08-11T19:50:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T23:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2012-08-11T19:52:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T23:52:22","slug":"a-tiny-scrap-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2745","title":{"rendered":"A Tiny Scrap of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From deep in the tradition, from <em>The Cloud of Unknowing<\/em>, a fourteenth-century text from an unnamed English monk:  &#8220;You only need a tiny scrap of time to move toward God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The words slap.  Busyness is not much of an excuse if it only takes a minute or two to move toward God.<\/p>\n<p>But the monk&#8217;s words console, too.  For, of time and person, it seems that scraps are all I have to bring forward.  That my ways of coming to God these days are all scraps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Lauren F. Winner, <em>Still:  Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis<\/em>, p. 108<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From deep in the tradition, from The Cloud of Unknowing, a fourteenth-century text from an unnamed English monk: &#8220;You only need a tiny scrap of time to move toward God.&#8221; The words slap. Busyness is not much of an excuse if it only takes a minute or two to move toward God. But the monk&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","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=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}