{"id":9341,"date":"2024-05-24T21:57:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T01:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9341"},"modified":"2024-05-24T21:57:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T01:57:59","slug":"its-okay-to-have-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9341","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Okay to Have Needs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bowler3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bowler3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bowler3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bowler3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bowler3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The feeder is empty again<br \/>\nand no one is claiming<br \/>\nthat the birds are greedy<br \/>\nfor taking what they pleased.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLook at how the fat, pink flowers<br \/>\nare weighing the end of each branch,<br \/>\nsucking nutrients into each velvet petal.<br \/>\n<em>How selfish.<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\nNature hungers, takes, and needs.<br \/>\nGod, why can&#8217;t I?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBlessed are we, learning to take<br \/>\nwhat we need.<br \/>\nSleeping past our alarms.<br \/>\nReaching for another helping.<br \/>\nStaying a little longer<br \/>\nwhen the evening is unwinding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kate Bowler, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/have_a_beautiful_terrible_day.html\">Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!  Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs, and In-Betweens<\/a><\/em>, p. 19<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Tree Swallow, South Riding, Virginia, May 21, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feeder is empty again and no one is claiming that the birds are greedy for taking what they pleased. Look at how the fat, pink flowers are weighing the end of each branch, sucking nutrients into each velvet petal. How selfish. Nature hungers, takes, and needs. God, why can&#8217;t I? Blessed are we, learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,60,9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-blessing","category-life","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341","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=9341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9343,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341\/revisions\/9343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}