{"id":5434,"date":"2018-09-26T12:06:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2018-09-11T09:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:07:25","slug":"examples-of-struggle-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5434","title":{"rendered":"Examples of Struggle in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6ilkv\" data-offset-key=\"9jjoe-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9jjoe-0-0\">\u201cI myself see remarkable \u2018podvizhniks\u2019 [strugglers], simple laypeople, who teach and save me by humbling me, and showing me how it is possible to live in our time in a truly ascetic way, as Christians. These are ordinary people\u2014women, youths, girls, and grown men. Not to mention the grandmothers, who read such prayer rules that when a monk hears about them\u2014I tell you honestly\u2014he feels uncomfortable. Moreover, they have been fulfilling these rules regularly for decades, with the absolute conviction that they are doing nothing special! A babushka reads so many kathismas for her eldest son, so many for the second, and so many for her youngest daughter. Then she says 1,500 Jesus prayers\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6ilkv\" data-offset-key=\"f9jm4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f9jm4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f9jm4-0-0\">(Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov in pravoslavie.ru)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"f9jm4-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5435\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bethlehemrussianbell-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bethlehemrussianbell-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bethlehemrussianbell.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6ilkv\" data-offset-key=\"dijil-0-0\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI myself see remarkable \u2018podvizhniks\u2019 [strugglers], simple laypeople, who teach and save me by humbling me, and showing me how it is possible to live in our time in a [&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-5434","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\/5434","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=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5436,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/5436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}