{"id":8800,"date":"2025-04-24T22:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8800"},"modified":"2025-04-24T22:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:43:04","slug":"more-elastic-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8800","title":{"rendered":"More Elastic Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Smith52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Smith52.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Smith52.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Smith52-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Smith52-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Smith52-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Smith52-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you think you know the shape and size of your life, when you think you know what is possible, something will happen to prove you wrong.  Be open to this &#8212; you want to be wrong!  Trust that your life is more elastic than you think: it can grow, be more, hold more.<\/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. 161<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Blackwater Falls, West Virginia, April 24, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you think you know the shape and size of your life, when you think you know what is possible, something will happen to prove you wrong. Be open to this &#8212; you want to be wrong! Trust that your life is more elastic than you think: it can grow, be more, hold more. KEEP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800","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=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9479,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions\/9479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}