{"id":8996,"date":"2020-10-27T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2020-10-24T20:41:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T00:41:46","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-27-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8996","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEven if prayer is common for us, it always demands preparation. What is more common for those who can read and write than reading and writing? However, sitting down to read or write, we do not immediately begin, but we calm ourselves before beginning\u2026 Even more so preparation for the work of prayer is necessary before praying, especially when what we have been doing before praying is of a totally different nature from prayer.\u201d<br \/>\n(St Theophan the Recluse, Homily,\u00a0 on\u00a0 prayer)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8997\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Crosskeys-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Crosskeys-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Crosskeys.jpg 303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEven if prayer is common for us, it always demands preparation. What is more common for those who can read and write than reading and writing? However, sitting down to [&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-8996","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\/8996","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=8996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8998,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions\/8998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}