{"id":4772,"date":"2017-02-25T23:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T03:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2017-02-25T23:48:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T03:48:38","slug":"meaning-of-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4772","title":{"rendered":"Meaning of our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meaning of our lives cannot be found in books or lecture halls or even churches or synagogues.  It&#8217;s discovered through these acts of love.  If God is love, and I believe that to be true, then we learn about God when we learn about love.  The first, and usually the last, classroom of love is the family.<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable thing about this crucible of love is that the love we experience in our families doesn&#8217;t have to be perfect.  In fact, it can&#8217;t be perfect, because none of us is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kerry Egan, <em>On Living<\/em>, p. 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meaning of our lives cannot be found in books or lecture halls or even churches or synagogues. It&#8217;s discovered through these acts of love. If God is love, and I believe that to be true, then we learn about God when we learn about love. The first, and usually the last, classroom of love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","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=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}