{"id":3980,"date":"2017-12-01T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2017-11-29T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T14:54:00","slug":"elder-joseph-on-bible-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3980","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph on Bible Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Always have the New Testament in your pocket, and when you find a brief opportunity, read an excerpt. Thus Christ gives you light and guides you towards His commandments. He completes your love and guides you to imitate Him&#8230;Piously read the Old Testament and you will extract the divine nectar of faith and love. In it God spoke directly to men, and angels guided them\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8216;Monastic Wisdom&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3981\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ElderJoseph-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ElderJoseph-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ElderJoseph-768x925.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ElderJoseph-850x1024.jpg 850w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ElderJoseph.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Always have the New Testament in your pocket, and when you find a brief opportunity, read an excerpt. Thus Christ gives you light and guides you towards His commandments. He [&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-3980","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\/3980","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=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}