{"id":5613,"date":"2013-10-12T17:17:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T17:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2013-10-12T18:20:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T18:20:32","slug":"slice-of-solace-pico-iyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2013\/10\/slice-of-solace-pico-iyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Slice of Solace: Pico Iyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;Occasionally, it&#8217;s true, I&#8217;ll meet someone&#8211;call him myself&#8211;who makes the same mistake again and again, heedless of what friends and sense tell him, unable even to listen to himself. Then he crashes his car, or suffers a heart attack, and suddenly calamity works on him like an alarm clock; by packing a punch that no gentler means can summon, suffering breaks him open and moves him to change his ways.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">by <strong>Pico Iyer<\/strong> from &#8220;The Value of Suffering,&#8221; which appeared in <em>The New York Times<\/em> (<\/span><a title=\"New York Times The Value of Suffering by Pico Iyer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/08\/opinion\/sunday\/the-value-of-suffering.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">September 8, 2013<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">)<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Occasionally, it&#8217;s true, I&#8217;ll meet someone&#8211;call him myself&#8211;who makes the same mistake again and again, heedless of what friends and sense tell him, unable even to listen to himself. Then he crashes his car, or suffers a heart attack, and suddenly calamity works on him like an alarm clock; by packing a punch that no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[60,12,1783,556,7,1781,1784,1782,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-5613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-a-slice-of-solace","7":"tag-appreciation","8":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","9":"tag-pico-iyer","10":"tag-slice-of-solace","11":"tag-solace","12":"tag-suffering","13":"tag-the-new-york-times","14":"tag-value-of-suffering","15":"tag-weighed-words","16":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5631,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions\/5631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}