{"id":374,"date":"2008-02-18T18:35:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T22:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/02\/18\/hardships-that-hang-on\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T18:35:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T22:35:06","slug":"hardships-that-hang-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Hardships That Hang On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The core of God&#8217;s plan is to rescue us from sin and self-centeredness.\u00c2\u00a0 Suffering &#8212; especially the chronic kind &#8212; is God&#8217;s choicest tool to accomplish this.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a <em>long <\/em>process.\u00c2\u00a0 But it means I can accept my paralysis as a chronic condition.\u00c2\u00a0 When I broke my neck, it wasn&#8217;t a jigsaw puzzle I had to solve fast or a quick jolt to get me back on track.\u00c2\u00a0 My paralyzing accident was the beginning of a lengthy process of becoming like Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Joni Eareckson Tada, <em>Pearls of Great Price, <\/em>February 17 entry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The core of God&#8217;s plan is to rescue us from sin and self-centeredness.\u00c2\u00a0 Suffering &#8212; especially the chronic kind &#8212; is God&#8217;s choicest tool to accomplish this.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a long process.\u00c2\u00a0 But it means I can accept my paralysis as a chronic condition.\u00c2\u00a0 When I broke my neck, it wasn&#8217;t a jigsaw puzzle I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}