{"id":647,"date":"2008-10-24T22:06:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T02:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/10\/24\/the-present\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T22:06:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T02:06:48","slug":"the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"The Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.\u00c2\u00a0 Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment &#8220;as to the Lord.&#8221; It is only our <em>daily <\/em>bread that we are encouraged to ask for.\u00c2\u00a0 The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; C. S. Lewis, &#8220;Learning in War-Time&#8221; (<em>The Weight of Glory<\/em>), quoted in <em>A Year with C. S. Lewis<\/em>, p. 323<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.\u00c2\u00a0 Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment &#8220;as to the Lord.&#8221; It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for.\u00c2\u00a0 The present is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}