{"id":8761,"date":"2021-04-07T22:31:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T02:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8761"},"modified":"2021-04-07T22:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T02:36:38","slug":"thankful-for-the-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8761","title":{"rendered":"Thankful for the Wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Smith-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Smith-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Smith-17.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Smith-17-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Smith-17-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be thankful for your wounds, as strange as that sounds; the ways you&#8217;ve been hurt and the ways you&#8217;ve faltered make you useful to other people.  Empathy is a kind of fellowship; be thankful that your wounds made this togetherness possible.<\/p>\n<p>KEEP MOVING.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Maggie Smith, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/keep_moving_smith.html\">Keep Moving<\/a><\/em>, p. 70<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, April 6, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be thankful for your wounds, as strange as that sounds; the ways you&#8217;ve been hurt and the ways you&#8217;ve faltered make you useful to other people. Empathy is a kind of fellowship; be thankful that your wounds made this togetherness possible. KEEP MOVING. &#8212; Maggie Smith, Keep Moving, p. 70 Photo: South Riding, Virginia, April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,20,35,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-gratitude","category-growth","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761","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=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9027,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions\/9027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}