{"id":13900,"date":"2024-05-19T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T13:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13900"},"modified":"2024-05-14T19:56:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T23:56:49","slug":"orthodox-quote-or-may-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13900","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for May 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI became Orthodox in part because I wanted the free will that God was offering. I wanted personhood. I did not want to submit to a life of possession. That\u2019s where this all ends, spoiler alert.\u00a0\u00a0 You get information from demons until you can\u2019t think or function by yourself, and the end point is allowing them to occupy you forever, whether you have the illusion of control over the situation or not. I\u2019ve been offered that in too many traditions to count.\u201d<br \/>\n(Justine Alter, former \u2018psychic\u2019 and Orthodox convert, in \u2018Journey to Orthodoxy\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13901\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pexels-photo-414083-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pexels-photo-414083-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pexels-photo-414083-480x320.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pexels-photo-414083.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI became Orthodox in part because I wanted the free will that God was offering. I wanted personhood. I did not want to submit to a life of possession. That\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-13900","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\/13900","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=13900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13924,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13900\/revisions\/13924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}