{"id":9644,"date":"2026-02-09T23:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9644"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:56:12","slug":"my-wild-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9644","title":{"rendered":"My Wild Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bowler7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bowler7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bowler7.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bowler7-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>God, give me satisfaction in the trying.<br \/>\nGive me joy in the never-quite-there.<br \/>\nGrant me peace in my unsettled heart<br \/>\nfor my wild mediocrity.<br \/>\nHelp me smile back<br \/>\nat the truth that no one,<br \/>\nnot one, knows perfection but you.<br \/>\nAnd you already looked at this<br \/>\nmessy creation<br \/>\nat the beginning of time<br \/>\nand pronounced it pretty darn good.<\/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!<\/a><\/em> p. 79<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, January 26, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, give me satisfaction in the trying. Give me joy in the never-quite-there. Grant me peace in my unsettled heart for my wild mediocrity. Help me smile back at the truth that no one, not one, knows perfection but you. And you already looked at this messy creation at the beginning of time and pronounced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-god","category-life","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644","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=9644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9646,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9644\/revisions\/9646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}