{"id":742,"date":"2015-07-26T10:19:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2015-07-25T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T21:22:49","slug":"july-26-2015-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"July 26, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ultimately, physical illnesses or the death of a loved one are opportunities to reflect upon the brevity of earthly life and ponder the reality that we are sojourners in a foreign land with our real homeland being in heaven with Christ and His saints&#8230;God allowing grief and suffering in order to awaken the heart to another reality that is far more precious than our earthly life.&#8221;<br \/>\nHieromonk Alexis Trader, 21st Century Monk) [Suffering; Trials; Sanctification]<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/09\/9b\/3f\/099b3fb4e9128ef25956d3908dfe2426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"412\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/09\/9b\/3f\/099b3fb4e9128ef25956d3908dfe2426.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"overwrap\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ultimately, physical illnesses or the death of a loved one are opportunities to reflect upon the brevity of earthly life and ponder the reality that we are sojourners 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","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\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}