{"id":9192,"date":"2024-07-18T22:08:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T02:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2024-07-18T22:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T02:08:35","slug":"repair-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9192","title":{"rendered":"Repair Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ruttenberg11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ruttenberg11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ruttenberg11.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ruttenberg11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ruttenberg11-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ruttenberg11-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ruttenberg11-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A person who does harm is not irrevocably a sinner.  Being someone who caused harm is not a fixed identity &#8212; or at least it does not have to be.  We have free will, and we can always choose to clean up whatever mess we have made, to the fullest extent that we can, and change for the better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Danya Ruttenberg, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/on_repentance_and_repair.html\">On Repentance and Repair<\/a><\/em>, p. 50<\/p>\n<p>Photo:  Karlstalschlucht, Germany, June 17, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person who does harm is not irrevocably a sinner. Being someone who caused harm is not a fixed identity &#8212; or at least it does not have to be. We have free will, and we can always choose to clean up whatever mess we have made, to the fullest extent that we can, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192","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=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9352,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions\/9352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}