{"id":2465,"date":"2016-09-26T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2016-09-18T08:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T12:07:27","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bqmrk\" data-offset-key=\"f89ql-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f89ql-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f89ql-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;In order to justify his slothfulness, the slothful man emphasizes the difficulties and obstacles of a certain task and magnifies them beyond measure. If a man annoys him, he will say that the entire village annoys him; if the leaves rustle, he will justify that he is unable to go to work because of a storm&#8230;Slothfulness is completely contrary to the nature of man. The nature of man is activity; the nature of man seeks to be occupied, to work and to build. Slothfulness is the sure sign of a distortion of the nature of man. That slothfulness is a terrible vice is clear in that an active man is never envious of the slothful man, while the slothful man is envious of the active man&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bqmrk\" data-offset-key=\"57j7m-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"57j7m-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"57j7m-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(St. Nikolai Velimirovich, &#8216;The Prologue&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bqmrk\" data-offset-key=\"9krru-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9krru-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9krru-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bqmrk\" data-offset-key=\"1e0n1-0-0\">\n<div style=\"width: 716px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/photo\/gallery\/100712\/GAL-10Jul12-5119\/media\/PHO-10Jul12-238341.jpg\" width=\"706\" height=\"471\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/photo\/gallery\/100712\/GAL-10Jul12-5119\/media\/PHO-10Jul12-238341.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In order to justify his slothfulness, the slothful man emphasizes the difficulties and obstacles of a certain task and magnifies them beyond measure. If a man annoys him, he will [&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-2465","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\/2465","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=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}