{"id":2265,"date":"2016-07-19T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2016-07-19T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T22:00:59","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I remember in the Army there were all kinds of urgent needs\u2026 There they were asking the commander to send into the front lines! They found joy in the idea of getting killed so that others with children were not have to die and leave their children without a father! I can&#8217;t imagine anyone making this kind of sacrifice today! It would be a rare thing\u2026 These days there is a lukewarm spirit; there is no manliness, no sacrifice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Elder Paisios ~ &#8220;With Pain and Love&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2051\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ElderPaisos-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"ElderPaisos\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ElderPaisos-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ElderPaisos.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I remember in the Army there were all kinds of urgent needs\u2026 There they were asking the commander to send into the front lines! They found joy in the idea [&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-2265","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\/2265","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=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}