{"id":7673,"date":"2019-06-25T23:55:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7673"},"modified":"2019-06-25T23:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T03:55:50","slug":"blinders-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7673","title":{"rendered":"Blinders Off"},"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\/06\/Lamott-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lamott-7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lamott-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lamott-7-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Reading and writing help us take the blinders off so we can look around and say &#8220;Wow,&#8221; so we can look at life and our lives with care, and curiosity, and attention to detail, which are what will make us happy and less afraid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Anne Lamott, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/almost_everything.html\"><em>Almost Everything<\/em><\/a>, p. 99<\/p>\n<p>Photo: After 2019 ALA Annual Conference<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading and writing help us take the blinders off so we can look around and say &#8220;Wow,&#8221; so we can look at life and our lives with care, and curiosity, and attention to detail, which are what will make us happy and less afraid. &#8212; Anne Lamott, Almost Everything, p. 99 Photo: After 2019 ALA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-reading","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673","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=7673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8023,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}