{"id":6425,"date":"2019-04-10T12:29:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6425"},"modified":"2019-04-05T12:30:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T16:30:32","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-welcoming-slander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6425","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Welcoming Slander"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"40nt7\" data-offset-key=\"5eeij-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5eeij-0-0\">\u201cIt is good that you told me! From now on, I will pray for others not to ever have a good opinion about you, for this will be to your benefit, my good child. God provides for people to wrong us or tell us some disturbing word that may help us redeem some debt of sin or to add to our treasure in Heaven. I cannot understand what you expect the spiritual life to be. You have not yet come to realize what is to your spiritual benefit, and you expect to be paid in full here; you leave nothing for Heaven. Why do you see things this way? What are you reading?\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"40nt7\" data-offset-key=\"dmnpa-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dmnpa-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dmnpa-0-0\"> ~ \u2018Spiritual Struggle\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"dmnpa-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6426\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/athos-vine-e1359994497560-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/athos-vine-e1359994497560-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/athos-vine-e1359994497560.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is good that you told me! From now on, I will pray for others not to ever have a good opinion about you, for this will be to your [&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-6425","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\/6425","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=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6427,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions\/6427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}