{"id":3886,"date":"2017-11-05T09:01:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T14:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2017-11-05T09:04:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T14:04:18","slug":"from-elder-st-paisios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3886","title":{"rendered":"From Elder St. Paisios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we do not renounce the secular spirit and do not adapt to the simple way \u2013 in other words if we do not stop being preoccupied with how others see us, or with what they say about us \u2013 we will never experience kinship with God and the Saints. But for this to happen we need to move to the spiritual realm.&#8221;<br \/>\n(&#8216;With Pain and Love&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3543\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/5-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/5-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/5-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/5.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we do not renounce the secular spirit and do not adapt to the simple way \u2013 in other words if we do not stop being preoccupied with how others [&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-3886","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\/3886","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=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3889,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}