{"id":7712,"date":"2018-12-18T21:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T01:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7712"},"modified":"2018-12-18T21:34:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T01:34:47","slug":"embodying-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7712","title":{"rendered":"Embodying Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Brown-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Brown-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Brown-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Brown-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Embodying and practicing gratitude changes everything.  It is not a personal construct, it&#8217;s a human construct &#8212; a unifying part of our existence &#8212; and it&#8217;s the antidote to foreboding joy, plain and simple.  It&#8217;s allowing yourself the pleasure of accomplishment, or love, or joy &#8212; of really feeling it, of basking in it &#8212; by conjuring up gratitude for the moment and for the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bren\u00c3\u00a9 Brown, <em>Dare to Lead<\/em>, p. 83<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, December 26, 2014<br \/>\n&#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embodying and practicing gratitude changes everything. It is not a personal construct, it&#8217;s a human construct &#8212; a unifying part of our existence &#8212; and it&#8217;s the antidote to foreboding joy, plain and simple. It&#8217;s allowing yourself the pleasure of accomplishment, or love, or joy &#8212; of really feeling it, of basking in it &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712","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=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}