{"id":1490,"date":"2015-12-14T12:09:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2015-12-04T12:11:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T17:11:38","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026 Working animals were taken care of when they grew old and were no longer able to work; they even had a good old age. Back then people didn&#8217;t have the means that are available today. Grain used for animal feed was ground manually into a fine consistency to enable the old and feeble oxen to eat it. Modern-day man has strayed from such things; they won&#8217;t even take care of elderly humans much less elderly farm animals!&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Paisios in &#8216;Family Life&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderPaisos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1491\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderPaisos-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"ElderPaisos\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderPaisos-218x300.jpg 218w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderPaisos.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026 Working animals were taken care of when they grew old and were no longer able to work; they even had a good old age. Back then people didn&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}