{"id":4423,"date":"2016-08-06T22:18:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T02:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2016-08-06T22:21:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T02:21:56","slug":"grievances-have-an-expiration-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4423","title":{"rendered":"Grievances Have an Expiration Date."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grievances don&#8217;t make you happy<\/strong>:  Sometimes we hold on to grievances because we are afraid that our past was our best chance for happiness.  However, you can&#8217;t continue to carry a grievance and hope to be happy.  To be truly happy, you have to be willing to make love more important than your grievances, your ego, and your past.  There comes a time, then when you have to accept that every grievance has an expiration date.  By being willing to forgive, you come to see that there is life after a grievance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Robert Holden, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/loveability.html\">Loveability<\/a><\/em>, p. 182<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grievances don&#8217;t make you happy: Sometimes we hold on to grievances because we are afraid that our past was our best chance for happiness. However, you can&#8217;t continue to carry a grievance and hope to be happy. To be truly happy, you have to be willing to make love more important than your grievances, your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-joy","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","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=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}