{"id":1447,"date":"2015-11-25T20:48:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2015-11-25T20:48:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:48:32","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_209g _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"dnbvv-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dnbvv-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;Geronda emphasized that when we wake up our mind is at rest and clear. Since it is in such a calm state of clarity and quietude that is the approximate time to give it the name of Jesus Christ as its first spiritual matter to work with this first thought of the mind upon waking.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_209g _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"e74sk-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e74sk-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Elder Ephraim of Arizona in &#8220;My Elder Joseph&#8221;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_209g _2vxa\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"e74sk-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/eldersMED.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1448\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/eldersMED-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"eldersMED\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/eldersMED-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/eldersMED-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/eldersMED.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Geronda emphasized that when we wake up our mind is at rest and clear. Since it is in such a calm state of clarity and quietude that is the approximate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}