{"id":7681,"date":"2019-09-16T22:37:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T02:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2019-09-16T22:37:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T02:37:52","slug":"empathy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7681","title":{"rendered":"Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Lamott-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Lamott-10.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Lamott-10-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Empathy says: You and I are made of the same lovely, heartbroken, and screwed-up stuff. You are not an object to me right now. (Maybe I&#8217;m not, either! Let me get back to you on this.) Empathy, a moment&#8217;s compassion, seeing that everyone has equal value, even people who have behaved badly, is as magnetic a force as gratitude. It draws people to us, thus giving us the capacity to practice receiving love, the scariest thing of all, and to experience the curiosity of a child.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Anne Lamott, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/almost_everything.html\"><em>Almost Everything<\/em><\/a>, p. 174<\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00c2\u00a0 Cascade in France, September 29, 1997<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empathy says: You and I are made of the same lovely, heartbroken, and screwed-up stuff. You are not an object to me right now. (Maybe I&#8217;m not, either! Let me get back to you on this.) Empathy, a moment&#8217;s compassion, seeing that everyone has equal value, even people who have behaved badly, is as magnetic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,37,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-connection","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681","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=7681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}