{"id":2977,"date":"2012-11-12T22:13:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T02:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2012-11-12T22:16:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T02:16:16","slug":"remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only now am I grasping the importance of looking backward.  Of remembrance.  My father finally wrote out his memories for a reason.  I took on a year of reading books for a reason.  Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real.  Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable.  Even fiction portrays truth: good fiction <em>is<\/em> truth.  Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Nina Sankovitch, <em>Tolstoy and the Purple Chair<\/em>, p. 73<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only now am I grasping the importance of looking backward. Of remembrance. My father finally wrote out his memories for a reason. I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-reading","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","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=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}