{"id":12518,"date":"2023-04-21T08:20:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12518"},"modified":"2023-04-21T08:20:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:20:36","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-april-21-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12518","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Often one hears from converts after some years of seemingly unfruitful struggles that &#8216;I didn\u2019t know what I was getting into when I became Orthodox.&#8217; Some sense this when they are first exposed to the Orthodox Faith, and this can cause them to postpone their encounter with Orthodoxy or even run away from it entirely&#8230;this is a result of the deep commitment required of those who are serious about the Orthodox Faith \u2013 a commitment that is quite different in kind from that of those who merely join a new denomination&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Fr. Seraphim Rose+, 20th Century American Convert and Theologian)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12519\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/10303948_930221207002796_4981587146999664112_n_9302212070027-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/10303948_930221207002796_4981587146999664112_n_9302212070027-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/10303948_930221207002796_4981587146999664112_n_9302212070027-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/10303948_930221207002796_4981587146999664112_n_9302212070027.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Often one hears from converts after some years of seemingly unfruitful struggles that &#8216;I didn\u2019t know what I was getting into when I became Orthodox.&#8217; Some sense this when they [&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-12518","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\/12518","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=12518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12520,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions\/12520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}