{"id":8716,"date":"2020-08-22T08:15:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T12:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8716"},"modified":"2020-08-14T20:16:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T00:16:25","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-22-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8716","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs the years pass we can look back on times, events, and changes in our lives that were difficult, even tragic, when they occurred. Whether those events were beyond our control, or brought upon by ourselves, we could not understand them at the time. With the passing of time we sometimes realize that, having kept focused on God and not blaming Him for what had happened, we learned a great deal. In fact, we often find ourselves upon a better path and more God-centered situation because of those difficult times.\u201d<br \/>\n(\u2018The Veil\u2019 of the Protection of the Holy Virgin Monastery)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8717\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-photo-37728-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-photo-37728-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-photo-37728-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-photo-37728-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-photo-37728-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-photo-37728.jpg 1880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs the years pass we can look back on times, events, and changes in our lives that were difficult, even tragic, when they occurred. Whether those events were beyond our [&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-8716","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\/8716","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=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8718,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions\/8718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}