{"id":4299,"date":"2016-05-23T23:12:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2016-05-23T23:15:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:15:29","slug":"do-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4299","title":{"rendered":"Do It Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far from originating joy, humans are meant to be like an echo, reverberating with God&#8217;s joy and sending it back to Him.  The very word <em>rejoice<\/em> contains (in the prefix &#8220;re&#8221;) this idea of &#8220;over again&#8221; or &#8220;back.&#8221;  The message of joy bears repeating, for in this dark world we need to hear about joy again and again.  Paul obviously thought so when he wrote from a prison cell, &#8220;I will say it again:  Rejoice!&#8221;  True joy is tireless.  It&#8217;s like a little child squealing, &#8220;Do it again, Daddy!&#8221; to which our heavenly Daddy replies heartily, &#8220;Yes, let&#8217;s do it again!  And again and again!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Mike Mason, <em>Champagne for the Soul<\/em>, p. 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from originating joy, humans are meant to be like an echo, reverberating with God&#8217;s joy and sending it back to Him. The very word rejoice contains (in the prefix &#8220;re&#8221;) this idea of &#8220;over again&#8221; or &#8220;back.&#8221; The message of joy bears repeating, for in this dark world we need to hear about joy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299","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=4299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}