{"id":300,"date":"2008-01-12T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T19:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/01\/12\/literature-and-life\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T19:12:15","slug":"literature-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Literature and Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no story without conflict, I tell would-be story writers.\u00c2\u00a0 Universal truth is ratified, in literature as in life, not through a character&#8217;s mere mindless affirmations of it but through the lifelong study that comes from doubting and challenging and searching and returning to the problem again and again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Patty Kirk, <em>Confessions of an Amateur Believer, <\/em>p. 73<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no story without conflict, I tell would-be story writers.\u00c2\u00a0 Universal truth is ratified, in literature as in life, not through a character&#8217;s mere mindless affirmations of it but through the lifelong study that comes from doubting and challenging and searching and returning to the problem again and again. &#8212; Patty Kirk, Confessions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}