{"id":14608,"date":"2024-12-09T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14608"},"modified":"2024-12-04T20:14:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T01:14:51","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-9-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14608","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThough no one forces us to choose today between idolatry and faithfulness, we so often freely worship idols when we ground the meaning and purpose of our lives in some vision of cultural success or personal fulfillment that serves only to inflame our passions and blind us to the humanity of our neighbors.\u00a0 Even without being forced into exile, we have become accustomed to hoping for nothing more than a somewhat better life in Babylon, however we may define that. \u201c<br \/>\n(Fr Philip Lemasters,\u00a0 Eastern Christian Insights blog)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14609\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/August-Postcards-GraphicsFa-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/August-Postcards-GraphicsFa-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/August-Postcards-GraphicsFa.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThough no one forces us to choose today between idolatry and faithfulness, we so often freely worship idols when we ground the meaning and purpose of our lives in some [&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-14608","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\/14608","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=14608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14610,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608\/revisions\/14610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}