{"id":8684,"date":"2020-10-12T22:40:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T02:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8684"},"modified":"2020-10-12T22:40:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T02:40:48","slug":"the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8684","title":{"rendered":"The Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kolber-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kolber-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kolber-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kolber-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kolber-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just as there&#8217;s no way to rush a flower to bloom, we cannot go beyond the stage we are in &#8212; we have to move at the pace that feels doable to us.  This is why I invite you to respect the intensity of your experience and to remember that the in-between is sacred too.  If I&#8217;ve learned anything, it may be that the <em>way<\/em> we do something matters as much as <em>what<\/em> we do.  The process of blooming is as valuable as the flower it produces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Aundi Kolber, <em>Try Softer<\/em>, p. 19<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, October 10, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as there&#8217;s no way to rush a flower to bloom, we cannot go beyond the stage we are in &#8212; we have to move at the pace that feels doable to us. This is why I invite you to respect the intensity of your experience and to remember that the in-between is sacred too. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","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=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8706,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions\/8706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}