{"id":12819,"date":"2023-07-18T09:43:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T13:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2023-07-16T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T23:46:09","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-july-18-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12819","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for July 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne of the characteristics of candles is that they consume themselves until there is nothing remaining. This too is a profitable reminder for us\u2014not only as symbolizing the Saints who \u201cspent\u201d themselves completely for the Lord, but also that our own life is melting away day by day, and soon we too will be standing before Him, and to reflect if we are using each precious day to the fullest.\u201d<br \/>\n(Abbess Michaela, St. Paisius Monastery of Arizona,\u00a0 Letter to Friends)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12820\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ch2-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ch2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ch2.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne of the characteristics of candles is that they consume themselves until there is nothing remaining. This too is a profitable reminder for us\u2014not only as symbolizing the Saints who [&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-12819","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\/12819","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=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12821,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions\/12821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}