{"id":9209,"date":"2024-01-21T22:47:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T02:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9209"},"modified":"2024-01-21T22:47:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T02:47:38","slug":"blessing-for-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9209","title":{"rendered":"Blessing for Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bowler1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bowler1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bowler1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bowler1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bowler1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bowler1-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bowler1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your emotions are not wrong or bad<br \/>\nor lying to you or telling the full truth.<br \/>\nThey are giving you a bit of data<br \/>\nthat you shouldn&#8217;t ignore.<br \/>\nWe love, and lose, and fall, and get back up,<br \/>\nand fail, and try again.<\/p>\n<p>Your humanity is not an affront.<br \/>\nWe are reminding ourselves that<br \/>\nthis is who we are, how we&#8217;re made:<br \/>\nto feel the pain, the grief, the stress,<br \/>\nthe risk, the fear, the heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p>So, you beautiful creature,<br \/>\nhere is your permission slip to feel it all.<br \/>\nTo feel the joy and delight and excitement.<br \/>\nAnd the sorrow and fear and despair.<\/p>\n<p>All the yellows and pinks, and violets and grays.<\/p>\n<p>Because you are the whole damn sky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/lives_we_actually_have.html\">The Lives We Actually Have<\/a><\/em>, p. 4-5<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, January 18, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your emotions are not wrong or bad or lying to you or telling the full truth. They are giving you a bit of data that you shouldn&#8217;t ignore. We love, and lose, and fall, and get back up, and fail, and try again. Your humanity is not an affront. We are reminding ourselves that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209","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=9209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9302,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209\/revisions\/9302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}