{"id":13158,"date":"2023-10-21T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13158"},"modified":"2023-10-16T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T00:06:52","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-21-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13158","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThough no one forces us to choose today between idolatry and faithfulness, we often freely worship idols when we ground the meaning and purpose of our lives in some vision of success in the world, regardless of how noble it may seem. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Even without being forced into exile, we easily become accustomed to hoping for nothing more than a better life in Babylon, however we may define that.\u00a0 We face the same temptations that our Lord\u2019s ancestors did, and we regularly fall into some version of the sins they committed. \u201c<br \/>\n(Fr Philip Lemasters,\u00a0 Eastern Christian Insights blog)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13159\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/8lll-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/8lll-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/8lll-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/8lll-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/8lll-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/8lll.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThough no one forces us to choose today between idolatry and faithfulness, we often freely worship idols when we ground the meaning and purpose of our lives in some vision [&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-13158","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\/13158","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=13158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13160,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions\/13160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}