{"id":108,"date":"2006-11-30T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T23:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=108"},"modified":"2006-11-30T16:40:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T23:40:18","slug":"a-new-maturity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"a new maturity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"normaltext\"> <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"1884419-c4de08a32464d6fd.jpg\" id=\"image109\" src=\"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/1884419-c4de08a32464d6fd.thumbnail.jpg\" \/>I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"arialbold11blue\">Beverly Sills \t\t<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"arialnorm10blue\">American Opera Singer<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving. <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=108\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"a new maturity\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wisdom-quotes","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}