{"id":8753,"date":"2021-03-27T21:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T01:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8753"},"modified":"2021-03-27T21:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T01:39:44","slug":"gifts-of-each-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8753","title":{"rendered":"Gifts of Each Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Smith-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Smith-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Smith-14.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Smith-14-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each season has its gifts.  What did my life&#8217;s hardest season give to me?  Most of all, belief in my own ability not only to come back after a long winter but to grow stronger, more alive.  Belief that change makes everything possible.  Belief in my own spring.  In the meantime, thanks to the bare trees, I can see more sky.  It&#8217;s a beauty emergency &#8212; all that blue through the branches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Maggie Smith, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/keep_moving_smith.html\">Keep Moving<\/a><\/em>, p. 55<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, March 27, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each season has its gifts. What did my life&#8217;s hardest season give to me? Most of all, belief in my own ability not only to come back after a long winter but to grow stronger, more alive. Belief that change makes everything possible. Belief in my own spring. In the meantime, thanks to the bare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-healing","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753","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=8753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9009,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}