{"id":1977,"date":"2016-04-28T11:45:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2016-04-28T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:45:29","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If the nightwatchman gets tired standing he sits. If sleep overcomes him and he begins to nod while he is sitting he doesn&#8217;t break the law. However if he is found lying down sleeping that he loses his job. It&#8217;s the same with us. If we are overcome with a bit of sleep and begin to nod while we are struggling in it doesn&#8217;t matter that much. If, however, the evil one manages to make a slide down then we had been crushed.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Arsenios the Cave-dweller)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1437\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0-480x320.jpg 480w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/0.jpg 1505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If the nightwatchman gets tired standing he sits. If sleep overcomes him and he begins to nod while he is sitting he doesn&#8217;t break the law. However if he 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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","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\/1977","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=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}