{"id":7879,"date":"2019-02-27T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T04:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7879"},"modified":"2019-02-27T00:47:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T04:47:11","slug":"changing-your-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7879","title":{"rendered":"Changing Your Story"},"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\/02\/Luskin-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Luskin-13.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Luskin-13-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Luskin-13-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A victim is one who often feels helpless to respond to painful circumstances or to control thoughts and feelings.  A hero has worked hard to overcome adversity and refuses to be beaten by difficult life events.  Forgiveness is the journey of moving from telling the story as a victim to telling the story as a hero.  Forgiveness means that your story changes so that you and not the grievance are in control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Fred Luskin, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/forgive_for_good.html\">Forgive\u00c2\u00a0for\u00c2\u00a0Good<\/a><\/em>, p. 138<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, February 20, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A victim is one who often feels helpless to respond to painful circumstances or to control thoughts and feelings. A hero has worked hard to overcome adversity and refuses to be beaten by difficult life events. Forgiveness is the journey of moving from telling the story as a victim to telling the story as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35,21,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-growth","category-healing","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879","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=7879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7881,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions\/7881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}