{"id":3348,"date":"2017-05-13T11:05:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T15:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2017-05-09T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T12:08:17","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-may-13-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3348","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for May 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Man does not fast because it pleases God if His servants do not eat, for, as the Lenten hymns of the Church remind us, \u2015the devil also never eats\u2016. Neither do men fast in order to afflict themselves with suffering and pain for God has no pleasure in the discomfort of His people. Neither do men fast with the idea that their hunger and thirst can somehow serve as a reparation for their sins&#8230;The purpose of fasting is to gain mastery over oneself and to conquer the passions of the flesh.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Protopresbyter George D. Konstantopoulos in &#8216;The Way&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3349\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1052706672-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"1052706672\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1052706672-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1052706672-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1052706672-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1052706672.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Man does not fast because it pleases God if His servants do not eat, for, as the Lenten hymns of the Church remind us, \u2015the devil also never eats\u2016. Neither [&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-3348","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\/3348","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=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}