{"id":4002,"date":"2017-12-06T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2017-12-02T09:56:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T14:56:43","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4002","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"7emre\" data-offset-key=\"23uki-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"23uki-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"23uki-0-0\">&#8220;If we can penetrate the stories told of the actual fourth century bishop, under the layers of legend that cover St. Nicholas throughout the centuries, we find one feature common to each tale, no matter how distorted: Bishop Nicholas always aids those in dire need&#8230;This is what Bishop Nicholas is to us; the one who showed how to believe in Christ and yet be in the world of our times. He taught by example the way one follows Christ.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"7emre\" data-offset-key=\"1aetv-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1aetv-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1aetv-0-0\">(Fr. Vladimir Berzonsky in &#8216;the Word&#8217; 1971)<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4003\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/0Saint_St_Nicholas_Greek_Hand-Painted_Orthodox_Icon_on_Wood_01-500x669-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/0Saint_St_Nicholas_Greek_Hand-Painted_Orthodox_Icon_on_Wood_01-500x669-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/0Saint_St_Nicholas_Greek_Hand-Painted_Orthodox_Icon_on_Wood_01-500x669.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we can penetrate the stories told of the actual fourth century bishop, under the layers of legend that cover St. Nicholas throughout the centuries, we find one feature common [&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-4002","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\/4002","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=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}