{"id":294,"date":"2015-05-18T18:21:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T18:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2015-05-18T18:21:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T18:21:44","slug":"may-18-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"May 18, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;I personally never try to persuade a person to become a monk, in fact, to the contrary, I usually advise putting off the decision and testing oneself&#8230;This is too important a step, just like marriage, in fact. Today, unfortunately, everything is different. Both monasticism and marriage are seen as something temporary: you try it, didn\u2019t like it, you move on. I reject this attitude and insist that every candidate do some serious soul-searching.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>(Archbishop Mark Arndt, 21st Century Hierarch in Germany) [Monasticism; Will of God; Vocation]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/www.pravoslavie.ru\/sas\/image\/101976\/197617.b.jpg<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I personally never try to persuade a person to become a monk, in fact, to the contrary, I usually advise putting off the decision and testing oneself&#8230;This is too important [&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-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}