{"id":7846,"date":"2019-10-19T22:41:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T02:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2019-10-19T22:41:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T02:41:52","slug":"love-as-an-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7846","title":{"rendered":"Love as an Offering"},"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\/10\/Nhat-Hanh-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Nhat-Hanh-7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Nhat-Hanh-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Nhat-Hanh-7-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To love is not to possess the other person or to consume all their attention and love.  To love is to offer the other person joy and a balm for their suffering.  This capacity is what we have to learn to cultivate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Thich Nhat Hanh, <em>How\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0Love<\/em>, p. 95<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: L. M. Montgomery&#8217;s Cavendish Home, Prince Edward Island, September 23, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To love is not to possess the other person or to consume all their attention and love. To love is to offer the other person joy and a balm for their suffering. This capacity is what we have to learn to cultivate. &#8212; Thich Nhat Hanh, How\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0Love, p. 95 Photo: L. M. Montgomery&#8217;s Cavendish Home, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-love","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846","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=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8181,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions\/8181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}