{"id":7635,"date":"2019-12-24T07:41:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7635"},"modified":"2019-12-21T07:45:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T12:45:26","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-24-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7635","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I too wish to share the choral dance, to celebrate the festival. But I take my part, not plucking the harp, not shaking the Thyrsian staff, not with the music of pipes, nor holding a torch, but holding in my arms the cradle of Christ. For this is all my hope, this my life, this my salvation, this my pipe, my harp. And bearing it I come, and having from its power received the gift of speech, I too, with the angels, sing: Glory to God in the Highest;<br \/>\nand with the shepherds: and on earth peace to men of good will.&#8221;<br \/>\n(St John Chrysostom, Nativity homily)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7636\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/416744-christmas-snow-scene-wallpaper-2560x1600-high-resolution-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/416744-christmas-snow-scene-wallpaper-2560x1600-high-resolution-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/416744-christmas-snow-scene-wallpaper-2560x1600-high-resolution-768x480.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/416744-christmas-snow-scene-wallpaper-2560x1600-high-resolution-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I too wish to share the choral dance, to celebrate the festival. But I take my part, not plucking the harp, not shaking the Thyrsian staff, not with the music [&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-7635","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\/7635","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=7635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7637,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635\/revisions\/7637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}