{"id":1705,"date":"2016-02-02T17:24:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T22:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T22:24:20","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nor should you pray &#8220;Oh God free me from my anger, my sorrow, etc.&#8221;. It is not good to pray about or think about the specific passion; something happens in our soul and we become even more enmeshed in this passion. Attack your passion had on and you&#8217;ll see how strongly it will entwine you, angry you, and you will not be able to do anything.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Porphyrios in &#8220;Wounded by Love&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elderPorphpyrios.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1564\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elderPorphpyrios-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"elderPorphpyrios\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elderPorphpyrios-238x300.jpg 238w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elderPorphpyrios.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nor should you pray &#8220;Oh God free me from my anger, my sorrow, etc.&#8221;. It is not good to pray about or think about the specific passion; something happens in [&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-1705","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\/1705","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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}