{"id":9898,"date":"2021-06-05T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T13:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9898"},"modified":"2021-06-02T20:33:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T00:33:04","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-5-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9898","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn fact, when one grows old, he is given the opportunity to repent more readily because the illusions are gone. While he still had his physical strength and his youth, he wasn\u2019t aware of his weaknesses, and imagined himself to be in a good spiritual state. But now that he has difficulties and is complaining, it helps him realize that he is not all right, that he is weak; and this helps him repent.\u201d<br \/>\n(Elder St Paisios in \u2018Spiritual Struggle\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9899\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rrer-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rrer-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rrer-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rrer.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn fact, when one grows old, he is given the opportunity to repent more readily because the illusions are gone. While he still had his physical strength and his youth, [&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-9898","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\/9898","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=9898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9900,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions\/9900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}