{"id":7709,"date":"2020-01-07T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7709"},"modified":"2020-01-04T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T02:25:08","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-7-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7709","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for January 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile the world will put away virtually all signs of the Christmas season literally the day after Christmas, the Church begins a glorious twelve-day celebration of the Lord\u2019s Nativity with our entrance into His Mysteries on the feast day and then a fast-free period. The Christian knows that we celebrate the only true Gift of Christmas: the Incarnate Son of God, who brings all of creation into Himself by becoming one with it. If that is not radical, what is?\u201d<br \/>\n(Archbishop Benjamin of the OCA, Nativity message)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7710\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/winter-in-the-desert-saija-lehtonen-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/winter-in-the-desert-saija-lehtonen-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/winter-in-the-desert-saija-lehtonen-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/winter-in-the-desert-saija-lehtonen.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile the world will put away virtually all signs of the Christmas season literally the day after Christmas, the Church begins a glorious twelve-day celebration of the Lord\u2019s Nativity with [&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-7709","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\/7709","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=7709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7711,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions\/7711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}