{"id":873,"date":"2015-08-11T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2015-08-10T14:42:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T18:42:57","slug":"august-11-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"August 11, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Niphon of Mt. Athos: \u00a0Niphon held several high offices in the Church, including Patriarch of Constantinople. \u00a0Removed by the Turks he went to Mt. Athos as an ordinary monk the the lowest of chores until he was eventually &#8216;discovered&#8217;. \u00a0he still continued to help in this way after that time. \u00a0There are no &#8216;higher&#8217; ranks of Christians, just different roles.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/oca.org\/saints\/lives\/2015\/08\/11\/102277-st-niphon-the-patriarch-of-constantinople-of-mt-athos<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.oca.org\/icons\/sm\/august\/0811niphonofconstantinople.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/images.oca.org\/icons\/sm\/august\/0811niphonofconstantinople.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Niphon of Mt. Athos: \u00a0Niphon held several high offices in the Church, including Patriarch of Constantinople. \u00a0Removed by the Turks he went to Mt. Athos as an ordinary monk [&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-873","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\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}