{"id":5253,"date":"2018-08-08T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2018-08-07T10:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:15:21","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5253","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Prelest is that state in which a person sees himself as a saint. Perfect. Worthy of God, worthy of all God\u2019s gifts&#8230;because flattery, self-flattery is essentially present in all of us. Here a person has, or so it seems to him, labored, and through his own labors has attained very much, acquired very much\u2014and he falls into prelest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Professor Alexei Osipov in pravoslavie.ru)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5254\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/102578091_cafd87ca-d50e-4541-a788-a79b6dfa355f-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/102578091_cafd87ca-d50e-4541-a788-a79b6dfa355f-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/102578091_cafd87ca-d50e-4541-a788-a79b6dfa355f-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/102578091_cafd87ca-d50e-4541-a788-a79b6dfa355f.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Prelest is that state in which a person sees himself as a saint. Perfect. Worthy of God, worthy of all God\u2019s gifts&#8230;because flattery, self-flattery is essentially present in all of [&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-5253","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\/5253","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=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5255,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions\/5255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}