{"id":9380,"date":"2025-01-18T00:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T04:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2025-01-18T00:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T04:45:19","slug":"my-own-small-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9380","title":{"rendered":"My Own Small Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Balzer1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Balzer1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Balzer1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Balzer1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Balzer1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Balzer1-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Balzer1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We too easily minimize the good that can be done by seemingly insignificant people in inconsequential places.  Ours is a world where influence is measured by the number of likes or followers on social media.  For every fantastic story that goes viral, there are countless others that are never told &#8211; stories about faithful people aware of their smallness in obscure or forgotten places who bless the world.  History reminds us that those &#8220;small&#8221; stories matter, more than we may ever know.<\/p>\n<p>I have my own small role to play, and so do you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Tracy Balzer, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/journey_of_sea_and_stone.html\">A Journey of Sea and Stone<\/a><\/em>, p. 50-51<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, January 17, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We too easily minimize the good that can be done by seemingly insignificant people in inconsequential places. Ours is a world where influence is measured by the number of likes or followers on social media. For every fantastic story that goes viral, there are countless others that are never told &#8211; stories about faithful people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,37,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blessing","category-connection","category-core-value"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380","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=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9383,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions\/9383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}