{"id":461,"date":"2008-04-20T20:30:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T00:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/04\/20\/the-great-joke-2\/"},"modified":"2008-04-20T20:30:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T00:30:30","slug":"the-great-joke-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"The Great Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

“But of course!” said the Spirit, shining with love and mirth so that my eyes were dazzled.\u00c2\u00a0 “That’s what we all find when we reach this country.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve all been wrong!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the great joke.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s no need to go on pretending one was right!\u00c2\u00a0 After that we begin living.”<\/p>\n

— from The Great Divorce, <\/em>by C. S. Lewis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“But of course!” said the Spirit, shining with love and mirth so that my eyes were dazzled.\u00c2\u00a0 “That’s what we all find when we reach this country.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve all been wrong!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the great joke.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s no need to go on pretending one was right!\u00c2\u00a0 After that we begin living.” — from The Great Divorce, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letting-go","category-life","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}