{"id":771,"date":"2015-07-28T09:45:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2015-07-27T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T00:49:34","slug":"july-28-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"July 28, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul of\u00a0Xeropotamou: \u00a0we often think that becoming a monastic was easier in the past when most people did not have much materially and so there was not that much to &#8216;give up&#8217; to enter a monastery. \u00a0St. Paul is one of many examples that this was not true. \u00a0He was the son of the Byzantine Emperor, lived in a palace with all comforts and had a promising career ahead. \u00a0But, he saw the eternal kingdom was a more valuable goal for his life&#8230;.what about you?<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/oca.org\/saints\/lives\/2015\/07\/28\/102116-venerable-paul-the-founder-of-the-xeropotamou-monastery-on-mt-at<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.oca.org\/icons\/sm\/july\/0728paulxeropatomaou.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"301\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/images.oca.org\/icons\/sm\/july\/0728paulxeropatomaou.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul of\u00a0Xeropotamou: \u00a0we often think that becoming a monastic was easier in the past when most people did not have much materially and so there was not that much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-saints-for-daily-life","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}