{"id":4924,"date":"2017-06-16T23:08:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T03:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2017-06-16T23:11:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T03:11:16","slug":"appreciation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4924","title":{"rendered":"Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We do violence to ourselves when we focus on what we are missing or lacking rather than appreciating the gifts we have been given.  You don&#8217;t have to follow a particular religion or even any religion at all to appreciate the marvels and mysteries of the world &#8212; they are there for all of us.  By bringing more appreciation into your life, you can change your attitude and your perspective on the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Arun Gandhi, <em>The Gift of Anger<\/em>, p. 220-221<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do violence to ourselves when we focus on what we are missing or lacking rather than appreciating the gifts we have been given. You don&#8217;t have to follow a particular religion or even any religion at all to appreciate the marvels and mysteries of the world &#8212; they are there for all of us. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","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=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}