{"id":9858,"date":"2026-08-04T21:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9858"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:28:10","slug":"the-tender-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9858","title":{"rendered":"The Tender One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Boyle60.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Boyle60.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a red rose in full bloom with a bud next to it, and a dark green background.  Quote: \"Turns out, the Tender One whom we long for longs for us.\" -- Gregory Boyle\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Boyle60.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Boyle60-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Boyle60-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Boyle60-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Boyle60-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>God meets our intensity of longing with intensity of longing.  Turns out, the Tender One whom we long for longs for us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory Boyle, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/forgive_everyone_everything.html\">Forgive Everyone Everything<\/a><\/em>, p. 31<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Parc Botanique de Haut Bretagne, June 19, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God meets our intensity of longing with intensity of longing. Turns out, the Tender One whom we long for longs for us. &#8212; Gregory Boyle, Forgive Everyone Everything, p. 31 Photo: Parc Botanique de Haut Bretagne, June 19, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858","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=9858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9862,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions\/9862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}