{"id":2085,"date":"2016-05-24T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2016-05-21T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T15:21:04","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-may-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2085","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for May 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"430ss\" data-offset-key=\"bon7p-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bon7p-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bon7p-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;tt is difficult to be an Orthodox Christian&#8230;However, the difficult part is not what you think. The fasting, long services, and prayers are tools. The real struggle is to repent. Repentance is not something one did in the past, repentance is an attitude toward life. One must be constantly turning away from self-centered and sinful tendencies and turning toward God.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"430ss\" data-offset-key=\"bjr5c-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bjr5c-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bjr5c-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Archpriest Michael Gillis, Canadian Orthodox priest)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bjr5c-0-0\">\n<div style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/pravoslavie.ru\/sas\/image\/102360\/236055.b.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/pravoslavie.ru\/sas\/image\/102360\/236055.b.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;tt is difficult to be an Orthodox Christian&#8230;However, the difficult part is not what you think. The fasting, long services, and prayers are tools. The real struggle is to repent. [&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-2085","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\/2085","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=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}