{"id":13486,"date":"2024-01-24T08:48:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2024-01-13T20:51:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T01:51:17","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-24-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13486","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for January 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was an upsetting thought. I gave myself a lecture: I\u2019ve been a Christian for almost 50 years, and I <em>certainly<\/em> should be able to do better than that. It\u2019s not that I have any doubts about Paradise or the Resurrection. No, it was just that first <em>moment<\/em> of death, that first step into darkness. Suddenly, it was overwhelmingly scary.\u201d<br \/>\n(Federica Mathewes-Green in her blog writing on the fear of death)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/jyjjy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13487\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/jyjjy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/jyjjy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/jyjjy-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/jyjjy.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was an upsetting thought. I gave myself a lecture: I\u2019ve been a Christian for almost 50 years, and I certainly should be able to do better than that. It\u2019s [&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-13486","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\/13486","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=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13488,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions\/13488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}