{"id":15765,"date":"2025-08-24T06:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15765"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:50:17","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-24-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15765","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHave you ever witnessed the mysteries of the cemetery? Have you seen the heaps of bones tossed hither and thither? Skulls without flesh on them, fearful and ugly, the sockets empty. The grinning jaws and the limbs strewn about. Look at these things: there you will find yourself. Where, then, is the flower of youth?\u2026 Where, in all these bones, are the things that make you proud?\u201d<br \/>\n(St Gregory of Nyssa, \u2018On the Beatitudes\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15766\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kkkkkg-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kkkkkg-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kkkkkg-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kkkkkg-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kkkkkg.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHave you ever witnessed the mysteries of the cemetery? Have you seen the heaps of bones tossed hither and thither? Skulls without flesh on them, fearful and ugly, the sockets [&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-15765","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\/15765","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=15765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15767,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions\/15767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}