{"id":518,"date":"2008-06-07T23:37:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T03:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/06\/07\/the-truth-of-myth\/"},"modified":"2008-06-07T23:37:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T03:37:48","slug":"the-truth-of-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"The Truth of Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nonetheless, myth is the closest approximation to truth available to the finite human being.\u00c2\u00a0 And the truth of myth is not limited by time or place.\u00c2\u00a0 A myth tells of that which was true, is true, and will be true.\u00c2\u00a0 If we will allow it, myth will integrate intellect and intuition, night and day; our warring opposites are reconciled, male and female, spirit and flesh, desire and will, pain and joy, life and death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, <em>The Irrational Season, <\/em>quoted by Carole F. Chase in <em>Glimpses of Grace, <\/em>p. 143<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonetheless, myth is the closest approximation to truth available to the finite human being.\u00c2\u00a0 And the truth of myth is not limited by time or place.\u00c2\u00a0 A myth tells of that which was true, is true, and will be true.\u00c2\u00a0 If we will allow it, myth will integrate intellect and intuition, night and day; our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}