{"id":9323,"date":"2021-01-19T09:42:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T14:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9323"},"modified":"2021-01-14T20:47:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T01:47:59","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-19-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9323","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for January 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If a king wanted to take possession\u00a0of his enemy&#8217;s city, he would begin by cutting off the water and the\u00a0food and so his enemies, dying of hunger, would submit to him. It\u00a0is the same with the passions of the flesh: if a man goes about fasting\u00a0and hungry the enemies of his soul grow weak.&#8221;<br \/>\n(St. John the Dwarf,\u00a0 &#8216;Sayings of the Desert Fathers&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9324\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/346999.b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/346999.b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/346999.b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/346999.b-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/346999.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If a king wanted to take possession\u00a0of his enemy&#8217;s city, he would begin by cutting off the water and the\u00a0food and so his enemies, dying of hunger, would submit 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-9323","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\/9323","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=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9325,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}