{"id":7486,"date":"2018-11-22T00:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T04:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7486"},"modified":"2018-11-22T00:27:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T04:27:43","slug":"better-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7486","title":{"rendered":"Better Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Bass-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Bass-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Bass-10.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Bass-10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Bass-10-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Practicing gratitude calls us to better lives, and a better world.  <\/p>\n<p>And begin <em>before<\/em> you are ready.  Even when a million reasons to not feel grateful stand in your way.  That is when gratitude is at its best.  It took me one hundred days to understand this.  My husband observed, &#8220;You know, gratitude saved your life in the midst of all the chaos.&#8221;  He was right.  Gratitude became both my refuge and my rallying cry.  It made a huge difference.  Trust me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Diana Butler Bass, <em>Gratitude<\/em>, p. 193<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Assateague Island, October 24, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing gratitude calls us to better lives, and a better world. And begin before you are ready. Even when a million reasons to not feel grateful stand in your way. That is when gratitude is at its best. It took me one hundred days to understand this. My husband observed, &#8220;You know, gratitude saved your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486","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=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}