{"id":6988,"date":"2019-07-13T22:58:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T02:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6988"},"modified":"2019-07-13T22:58:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T02:58:15","slug":"kinship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6988","title":{"rendered":"Kinship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Boyle-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Boyle-27.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Boyle-27-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Boyle-27-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>In the end, though, the measure of our compassion with what Martin Luther King calls &#8220;the last, the least, and the lost&#8221; lies less in our service of those on the margins, and more in our willingness to see ourselves in kinship with them. It speaks of a kinship so mutually rich that even the dividing line of service provider\/service recipient is erased. We are sent to the margins NOT to make a difference but so that the folks on the margins will make <em>us<\/em> different.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory Boyle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/barking_to_the_choir.html\"><em>Barking to the Choir<\/em><\/a>, p. 165<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, July 13, 2013<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, though, the measure of our compassion with what Martin Luther King calls &#8220;the last, the least, and the lost&#8221; lies less in our service of those on the margins, and more in our willingness to see ourselves in kinship with them. It speaks of a kinship so mutually rich that even the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-compassion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988","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=6988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8057,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions\/8057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}