{"id":6818,"date":"2018-08-11T19:05:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6818"},"modified":"2018-08-11T19:20:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T23:20:39","slug":"the-value-of-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6818","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Stosny-5-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Stosny-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Stosny-5-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Stosny-5-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Stosny-5-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ultimate issue isn&#8217;t whether people deserve your negative thoughts; certainly many people do.  The more important point is that they are <em>your<\/em> thoughts in <em>your<\/em> head, and you want them to be as beneficial to you as possible.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s impossible to appreciate and feel devalued at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Stosny, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/living_and_loving_after_betrayal.html\">Living and Loving After Betrayal<\/a><\/em>, p. 67<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: Assateague Island, October 24, 2016]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultimate issue isn&#8217;t whether people deserve your negative thoughts; certainly many people do. The more important point is that they are your thoughts in your head, and you want them to be as beneficial to you as possible. It&#8217;s impossible to appreciate and feel devalued at the same time. &#8212; Steven Stosny, Living and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-gratitude","category-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818","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=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}