{"id":2338,"date":"2016-08-20T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T16:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2016-08-07T20:53:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T00:53:23","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2338","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom  from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Truth is, the more comforts and technology we have, the more crazy things we invent to fill our days.\u00a0Not only have we filled up our free time with new pastimes, we are missing out on the kind of work that lends itself to prayer \u2014 that redundant work of washing dishes or kneading bread which is now done by machines, was the kind of work that one could do while praying. We embraced progress, and now we pray less.&#8221;<br \/>\n(St. Paisios\u00a0quotes are from <em>Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2053\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ElderPaisos3-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"ElderPaisos3\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ElderPaisos3-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ElderPaisos3.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Truth is, the more comforts and technology we have, the more crazy things we invent to fill our days.\u00a0Not only have we filled up our free time with new pastimes, [&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-2338","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\/2338","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=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}