{"id":9054,"date":"2021-10-14T17:40:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9054"},"modified":"2021-10-14T17:40:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:40:27","slug":"for-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9054","title":{"rendered":"For Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Eger-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Eger-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Eger-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Eger-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Eger-1-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Eger-1-640x425.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Eger-1-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forgiveness isn&#8217;t something we do for the person who&#8217;s hurt us.  It&#8217;s something we do for ourselves, so we&#8217;re no longer victims or prisoners of the past, so we can stop carrying a burden that harbors nothing but pain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Edith Eger, <em>The Gift<\/em>, p. 177<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Donnersberg, Germany, November 8, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgiveness isn&#8217;t something we do for the person who&#8217;s hurt us. It&#8217;s something we do for ourselves, so we&#8217;re no longer victims or prisoners of the past, so we can stop carrying a burden that harbors nothing but pain. &#8212; Edith Eger, The Gift, p. 177 Photo: Donnersberg, Germany, November 8, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054","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=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9082,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions\/9082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}