{"id":8855,"date":"2020-09-22T08:32:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8855"},"modified":"2020-09-12T08:34:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T12:34:04","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-september-22-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8855","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for September 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>\u201c<\/i>There is therefore nothing in common between idolatry and the veneration of icons. The icon is not something standing before the human person as a sole and self-sufficient object for worship. It is not even something placed between the person and God\u2026the icon is a window onto the other world: through the icon the human person comes into direct contact with the spiritual world and those who live there.\u201d<br \/>\n<i>(Metropolitan <\/i>Hilarion Alfeyev, catechism)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8856\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/72-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/72-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/72-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/72.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is therefore nothing in common between idolatry and the veneration of icons. The icon is not something standing before the human person as a sole and self-sufficient object for [&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-8855","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\/8855","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=8855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8857,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions\/8857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}