{"id":13335,"date":"2023-12-12T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T13:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13335"},"modified":"2023-12-07T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T13:24:17","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-12-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13335","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c I would also say that I see fasting as an act of rebellion. We live in a consumerist culture that actively promotes over-indulgence of our appetites for material objects, food, and sex, without regard to the harm it may bring to our physical, mental or spiritual health\u2026By just showing a little restraint in what I eat for part of the year, and living with a little bit of discipline and self-denial, I feel that I am defying those myriad forces which are trying to enslave me to the things of this world. I want to live for something Higher.\u201d<br \/>\n(Fr. Theodore Lyketsos,\u00a0 Holy Trinity newsletter)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ttt444.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13336\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ttt444-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ttt444-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ttt444-480x320.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ttt444.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c I would also say that I see fasting as an act of rebellion. We live in a consumerist culture that actively promotes over-indulgence of our appetites for material objects, [&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-13335","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\/13335","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=13335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13337,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335\/revisions\/13337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}