{"id":5122,"date":"2018-07-11T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2018-07-08T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T12:42:21","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-the-modern-lethargy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5122","title":{"rendered":"Elder St.\u00a0 Paisios on the Modern Lethargy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Today with so much reading people end up like tape recorders, filling up their cassettes with superfluous matters. According to Abba Isaac, however, &#8216;Wisdom not based on righteous activity is a deposit of disgrace&#8217;.\u00a0 You see, many who are interested in sports read sports magazines and newspapers while they are sitting. They may be like the fatted calf, but they still marvel at the athletes. &#8216;Oh he is marvellous! He is great! Bravo!&#8217; But they don\u2019t work up any sweat, and they don\u2019t lose any pounds. They read and read about athletic events, and then they go and lie down; they gain nothing. They are satisfied with the pleasure of reading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Spiritual Awakening&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5123\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/d24e57fbbbb2918ea14b7ce581218e05-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/d24e57fbbbb2918ea14b7ce581218e05-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/d24e57fbbbb2918ea14b7ce581218e05.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Today with so much reading people end up like tape recorders, filling up their cassettes with superfluous matters. According to Abba Isaac, however, &#8216;Wisdom not based on righteous activity is [&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-5122","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\/5122","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=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5124,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}