{"id":8587,"date":"2020-08-16T22:47:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8587"},"modified":"2020-08-16T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T02:47:55","slug":"a-priceless-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8587","title":{"rendered":"A Priceless Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sunim-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sunim-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sunim-3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Sunim-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems we acquire the most strength and wisdom<br \/>\nat those points in our lives that are the most difficult.<br \/>\nLater on, we think back on those difficult times,<br \/>\non what we learned from them<br \/>\nand how we came through them.<br \/>\nThen we realize that they have been<br \/>\na priceless experience for us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Haemin Sunim, <em>Love for Imperfect Things<\/em>, p. 161<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, August 7, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems we acquire the most strength and wisdom at those points in our lives that are the most difficult. Later on, we think back on those difficult times, on what we learned from them and how we came through them. Then we realize that they have been a priceless experience for us. &#8212; Haemin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587","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=8587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8636,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587\/revisions\/8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}