{"id":6874,"date":"2019-07-06T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6874"},"modified":"2019-07-04T09:17:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:17:32","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-july-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6874","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for July 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c You must meet your own self. And believe me it\u2019s the most important acquaintance. A vast number of people live their lives never even bothering to discover themselves at all. Sometimes we only have the vaguest notions or fantasies of who we are, and so depending upon our own vanity, pride, resentments, and ambitions we see nothing. But the truth, however bitter it might seem to us, is that we are \u2018wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov in \u00a0\u00a0\u2018Everyday Saints\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6875\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gila_woodpecker-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gila_woodpecker-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gila_woodpecker-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gila_woodpecker-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gila_woodpecker.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c You must meet your own self. And believe me it\u2019s the most important acquaintance. A vast number of people live their lives never even bothering to discover themselves at [&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-6874","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\/6874","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=6874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}