{"id":744,"date":"2009-02-28T16:28:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T20:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/02\/28\/influence-2\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T20:28:24","slug":"influence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think about the people who have most influenced you.\u00c2\u00a0 When I remember them I am always surprised to discover that these are people who did not try to influence me, who did not need my response.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead they radiated a certain inner freedom.\u00c2\u00a0 They made me aware that they were in touch with more than themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 They pointed to a reality greater than themselves from which and in whom their freedom grew.\u00c2\u00a0 This centeredness, this inner freedom, this spiritual independence had a mysterious contagiousness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Henri Nouwen, <em>Turn My Mourning into Dancing, <\/em>p. 75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about the people who have most influenced you.\u00c2\u00a0 When I remember them I am always surprised to discover that these are people who did not try to influence me, who did not need my response.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead they radiated a certain inner freedom.\u00c2\u00a0 They made me aware that they were in touch with more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,25,2,19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connection","category-core-value","category-inspiration","category-letting-go","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}