{"id":14605,"date":"2024-12-04T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14605"},"modified":"2024-12-04T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T01:13:00","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-8-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14605","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBecause it is precisely in the midst of the worst of all our sins that God Himself chooses to act. Apart from God, our best virtues will remain forever barren \u2014 but with God, even the greatest of sinners can still bear fruit. Nothing proves this more than the birth of the Mother of God\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n(Hieromonk Gabriel, \u2018Remembering Sion\u2019 blog)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14606\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/i9-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/i9-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/i9-480x320.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/i9.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBecause it is precisely in the midst of the worst of all our sins that God Himself chooses to act. Apart from God, our best virtues will remain forever barren [&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-14605","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\/14605","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=14605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14607,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14605\/revisions\/14607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}