{"id":1682,"date":"2016-01-27T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2016-01-21T20:43:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T01:43:16","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1682","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for January 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Veneration is far more than the acts of bowing, kissing, crossing oneself, offering incense or lighting candles. Those things become <em>veneration<\/em> when they are offered towards the person who is made present in an icon. An icon that becomes an object ceases to be a true icon and becomes mere art, or worse, the object of a fetish. The Fathers taught that an \u201cicon makes present that which it represents.\u201d The veneration of an icon is an encounter with a <em>person<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Fr Stephen Freeman in pravoslavie.ru)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qpE5hNwi618\/TIJmDKEUy2I\/AAAAAAAAJhs\/YqyRQm3W2Bg\/s400\/bush.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qpE5hNwi618\/TIJmDKEUy2I\/AAAAAAAAJhs\/YqyRQm3W2Bg\/s400\/bush.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Veneration is far more than the acts of bowing, kissing, crossing oneself, offering incense or lighting candles. Those things become veneration when they are offered towards the person who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","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=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}