{"id":1010,"date":"2015-09-08T21:06:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2015-09-08T21:06:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:06:37","slug":"september-8-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"September 8, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But we can in no way dare to blame someone who offends us, even though it seemed to be an unjust offense. Rather we must consider him to be an instrument of God\u2019s Providence, sent to us to show our disposition.\u00a0No one can offend us or irritate us if the Lord doesn\u2019t let this happen for our benefit, or as a punishment, or to try us and correct us.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Macarius of Optina)\u00a0[Patience; Peace]<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn5.img.sputniknews.com\/images\/102667\/94\/1026679416.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/cdn5.img.sputniknews.com\/images\/102667\/94\/1026679416.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But we can in no way dare to blame someone who offends us, even though it seemed to be an unjust offense. Rather we must consider him to be an [&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-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}