{"id":6829,"date":"2018-08-13T22:29:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T02:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6829"},"modified":"2018-08-13T22:37:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T02:37:34","slug":"the-unboxable-largeness-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6829","title":{"rendered":"The Unboxable Largeness of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Mason-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Mason-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Mason-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Mason-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Mason-5-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The course of a champion requires continual growth.  For the person who&#8217;s growing, each day is different.  Each hour presents new challenges that have to be met with new strategies.  If we&#8217;re stuck in a rut, we don&#8217;t need new strategies; we can live by the same old rules and never change a thing.  To joy this is intolerable.  Joy requires freshness, newness, stimulation.  Joy thrives on the unboxable largeness of life in all its bewildering variety.  Depression feeds on sameness, but joy craves a steady diet of fresh, dangerous, wiggling, live game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Mike Mason, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/champagne_for_the_soul.html\">Champagne for the Soul<\/a><\/em>, p. 82<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: From Dunluce Castle, Northern Ireland, July 2001]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The course of a champion requires continual growth. For the person who&#8217;s growing, each day is different. Each hour presents new challenges that have to be met with new strategies. If we&#8217;re stuck in a rut, we don&#8217;t need new strategies; we can live by the same old rules and never change a thing. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829","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=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}