{"id":8794,"date":"2023-07-10T21:37:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T01:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2023-07-10T21:37:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T01:37:31","slug":"gifts-of-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8794","title":{"rendered":"Gifts of Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Smith-30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Smith-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Smith-30.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Smith-30-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Smith-30-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reflect on what loss has given you, as counterintuitive as that sounds.  Think of the solitude, self-reflection, self-reliance as gifts.  Of course they don&#8217;t weigh the same as the grief &#8212; they don&#8217;t balance the scales &#8212; but be grateful for them anyway.<\/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. 150<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Oregon Coast, May 13, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflect on what loss has given you, as counterintuitive as that sounds. Think of the solitude, self-reflection, self-reliance as gifts. Of course they don&#8217;t weigh the same as the grief &#8212; they don&#8217;t balance the scales &#8212; but be grateful for them anyway. KEEP MOVING. &#8212; Maggie Smith, Keep Moving, p. 150 Photo: Oregon Coast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794","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=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9224,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions\/9224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}