{"id":652,"date":"2008-11-01T23:09:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T03:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/11\/01\/responsibility-is-power\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T23:11:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T03:11:15","slug":"responsibility-is-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Responsibility is Power."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I talk about responsibility, I am really talking about having power.\u00c2\u00a0 Blame is about giving away one&#8217;s power.\u00c2\u00a0 Responsibility gives us the power to make changes in our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 If we play the victim role, then we are using our personal power to be helpless.\u00c2\u00a0 If we decide to accept responsibility, then we don&#8217;t waste time blaming somebody or something <em>out there. . . .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.<\/p>\n<p>Louise L. Hay, <em>The Power Is Within You, <\/em>p. 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I talk about responsibility, I am really talking about having power.\u00c2\u00a0 Blame is about giving away one&#8217;s power.\u00c2\u00a0 Responsibility gives us the power to make changes in our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 If we play the victim role, then we are using our personal power to be helpless.\u00c2\u00a0 If we decide to accept responsibility, then we don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-growth","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}