{"id":3188,"date":"2017-04-03T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2017-04-01T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T11:37:12","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-april-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3188","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for April 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPray without forming images in your mind. Don\u2019t try to imagine Christ. The Fathers emphasized the need for prayer to be free of images. With an image, the focus of prayer is easily lost, because one image can easily be displaced by another. And the evil one may intrude images and we lose the grace.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Porpyrios in &#8216;Wounded by Love&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3189\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5lf-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"5lf\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5lf-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5lf.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPray without forming images in your mind. Don\u2019t try to imagine Christ. The Fathers emphasized the need for prayer to be free of images. With an image, the focus of [&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-3188","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\/3188","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=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3190,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/3190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}