{"id":46,"date":"2007-08-25T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/08\/25\/disarming-defenses\/"},"modified":"2007-08-25T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T00:03:07","slug":"disarming-defenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Disarming Defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Compassion <em>disarms <\/em>the defenses of others.\u00c2\u00a0 Compassion rarely stimulates anger in others, making hostile or destructive defenses <em>unnecessary, <\/em>thereby breaking the cycle of reciprocal and escalating aggression.\u00c2\u00a0 It is virtually impossible to sustain aggression in the face of compassionate behavior.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Stosny, <em>The Powerful Self, <\/em>p. 30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Compassion disarms the defenses of others.\u00c2\u00a0 Compassion rarely stimulates anger in others, making hostile or destructive defenses unnecessary, thereby breaking the cycle of reciprocal and escalating aggression.\u00c2\u00a0 It is virtually impossible to sustain aggression in the face of compassionate behavior.&#8221; &#8212; Steven Stosny, The Powerful Self, p. 30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}