{"id":955,"date":"2015-08-24T15:14:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T19:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2015-08-24T15:14:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T19:14:33","slug":"august-24-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"August 24, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I always \u00a0emphasize that young people try to live as spiritually as they can before marriage, since preserving their chastity secures their physical and spiritual health. The spiritual life is a basic prerequisite to whatever life one chooses. The world has become like a complete field that is ready for harvest, but swine enter and trample it. So now everything is in disarray&#8230;but here and there on some image, there is an occasional wheat stock standing upright.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Paisios ~ &#8216;Family Life&#8217;) [Family; Temptations]<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 868px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/03411\/potd-russia_3411912k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"536\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/03411\/potd-russia_3411912k.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I always \u00a0emphasize that young people try to live as spiritually as they can before marriage, since preserving their chastity secures their physical and spiritual health. The spiritual life is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","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=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}