{"id":3814,"date":"2015-08-10T21:29:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T01:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2015-08-10T21:33:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T01:33:53","slug":"unexpected-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3814","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gratitude supports basic trust.  Gratitude helps you to suspend your judgment.  It gives you another angle, another way of looking at things.  &#8220;Life doesn&#8217;t happen <em>to<\/em> you, it happens <em>for<\/em> you,&#8221; I wrote in <em>Be Happy.<\/em>  Sometimes cancellations, rejections, traffic delays, bad weather, and even more bad weather can come bearing gifts.  A layoff, an illness, or the end of a relationship may well be the start of something wonderful.  &#8220;We don&#8217;t know what anything is really for, says Louise.  &#8220;Even a tragedy might turn out to be for our greatest good.  That&#8217;s why I like to affirm <em>Every experience in my life benefits me in some way.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Robert Holden and Louise Hay, <em>Life Loves You<\/em>, p. 160<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gratitude supports basic trust. Gratitude helps you to suspend your judgment. It gives you another angle, another way of looking at things. &#8220;Life doesn&#8217;t happen to you, it happens for you,&#8221; I wrote in Be Happy. Sometimes cancellations, rejections, traffic delays, bad weather, and even more bad weather can come bearing gifts. A layoff, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-gratitude","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","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=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}