{"id":508,"date":"2008-05-28T22:48:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T02:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/05\/28\/the-minds-of-children\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T22:48:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T02:48:25","slug":"the-minds-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"The Minds of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 The most grownup of us is not very grownup at all&#8230; the most mature of us is pretty immature&#8230; we still have a vast amount to learn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, <em>The Irrational Season, <\/em>quoted in <em>Glimpses of Grace, <\/em>compiled by Carole F. Chase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 The most grownup of us is not very grownup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-and-books","category-truth","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}