{"id":8470,"date":"2020-06-30T08:10:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T12:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8470"},"modified":"2020-06-20T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T12:12:09","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-30-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8470","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026\u2018The Church thought up fasting\u2019. All such ideas simply come from ignorance. The first commandment \u2013 given to human beings in paradise \u2013 is the commandment of fasting. But the fasting appointed for the first human-beings was so easy! You can eat everything, only do not eat the fruit from one tree (not even from one sort of tree, but from one particular tree!). This was in a way a fast. And what is fasting? It is obedience.\u201d<br \/>\n(Archpriest Valerian Krechetov, pravoslavie.ru)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8471\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/x-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/x-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/x.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026\u2018The Church thought up fasting\u2019. All such ideas simply come from ignorance. The first commandment \u2013 given to human beings in paradise \u2013 is the commandment of fasting. But the [&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-8470","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\/8470","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=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}