{"id":10220,"date":"2021-08-26T09:33:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T13:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10220"},"modified":"2021-08-14T21:34:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T01:34:20","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-26-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10220","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe can fast by simply being dutifully obedient, holding to the fast by the sheer power of our determination\u2026 Eventually, as the focus of such fasting shifts to oneself, our ascetical offerings cease to bring us closer to Christ\u2026If we fast with meekness, on the other hand, the fast feels lighter to carry, just as our Lord approached the Cross with meekness.\u201d<br \/>\n(Fr Joseph writing in the Palanton)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10221\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12391346914_89abd2f257-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12391346914_89abd2f257-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12391346914_89abd2f257-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12391346914_89abd2f257.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe can fast by simply being dutifully obedient, holding to the fast by the sheer power of our determination\u2026 Eventually, as the focus of such fasting shifts to oneself, our [&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-10220","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\/10220","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=10220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10222,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220\/revisions\/10222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}