{"id":9088,"date":"2021-11-22T23:37:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T03:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2021-11-22T23:37:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T03:37:35","slug":"broken-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9088","title":{"rendered":"Broken Wide Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Myss-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Myss-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Myss-7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Myss-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Myss-7-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Myss-7-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Myss-7-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard people say they are afraid to love because they might get hurt.  I say, get hurt and get it over with!  And then keep going.  Those songs about mending a broken heart are utter nonsense.  A heart is meant to be broken &#8212; <em>broken wide open<\/em>.  You do not &#8220;mend&#8221; a broken heart.  You fill in those places with people &#8212; and lots of them.  Small closed hearts are nothing but trouble.  They generate small, closed thoughts.  You love in small, insecure ways.  Instead, love big.  Love wild.  And imagine love way beyond romantic fantasies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Caroline Myss, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/intimate_conversations_with_the_divine.html\">Intimate Conversations with the Divine<\/a><\/em>, p. 246<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, November 1, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard people say they are afraid to love because they might get hurt. I say, get hurt and get it over with! And then keep going. Those songs about mending a broken heart are utter nonsense. A heart is meant to be broken &#8212; broken wide open. You do not &#8220;mend&#8221; a broken heart. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088","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=9088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9090,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions\/9090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}