{"id":9785,"date":"2021-05-09T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9785"},"modified":"2021-05-06T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:22:32","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-may-9-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9785","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for May 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe secular mind cannot see death as anything other than \u2018the end\u2019, and thus a thing to flee from as the utmost evil. For this reason, the avoidance of death is seen as the highest aim, the highest good \u2014 even if the result of this is a so-called \u2018life\u2019 utterly overwhelmed with fear, sorrow and grief.\u201d<br \/>\n(Parish Life Journal of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist, 12\/20)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9786\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/56a7d8892a00006e00031522-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/56a7d8892a00006e00031522-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/56a7d8892a00006e00031522-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/56a7d8892a00006e00031522.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe secular mind cannot see death as anything other than \u2018the end\u2019, and thus a thing to flee from as the utmost evil. For this reason, the avoidance of death [&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-9785","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\/9785","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=9785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9787,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785\/revisions\/9787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}