{"id":514,"date":"2008-06-03T22:56:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T02:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/06\/03\/vanity-in-goodness\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T22:56:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T02:56:57","slug":"vanity-in-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Vanity in Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The obligations of normal human kindness &#8212; <em>chesed<\/em>, as the Hebrew has it &#8212; that we all owe.\u00c2\u00a0 But there&#8217;s a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a kind of vanity in goodness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, <em>A Ring of Endless Light<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The obligations of normal human kindness &#8212; chesed, as the Hebrew has it &#8212; that we all owe.\u00c2\u00a0 But there&#8217;s a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a kind of vanity in goodness. &#8212; Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, A Ring of Endless Light<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letting-go","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}