{"id":9777,"date":"2026-05-30T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9777"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:13:22","slug":"our-greatest-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9777","title":{"rendered":"Our Greatest Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Pavlovitz54.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Pavlovitz54.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Pavlovitz54.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Pavlovitz54-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Pavlovitz54-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Pavlovitz54-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Pavlovitz54-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love is still the greatest weapon we have in the face of fear.  It is still the antidote to all that afflcts us.  No, opposing hatred isn&#8217;t hateful.  Opposing hatred is how we embody love.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; John Pavlovitz, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/worth_fighting_for.html\">Worth Fighting For<\/a><\/em>, p. 61<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, May 29, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love is still the greatest weapon we have in the face of fear. It is still the antidote to all that afflcts us. No, opposing hatred isn&#8217;t hateful. Opposing hatred is how we embody love. &#8212; John Pavlovitz, Worth Fighting For, p. 61 Photo: South Riding, Virginia, May 29, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777","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=9777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9779,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions\/9779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}