{"id":9972,"date":"2021-06-22T09:41:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2021-06-18T20:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T00:42:14","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-22-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9972","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a strange paradox. When something isn\u2019t very important, it\u2019s not so difficult to concentrate. When we\u2019re watching television we don\u2019t suffer particularly from an inability to concentrate and attend to what\u2019s happening. If we\u2019re reading a serious book, a biography, or a piece of historical writing, then the concentration is more difficult, but it\u2019s not so hard. Prayer, which is the most important thing of all, then the concentration is hardest of all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, comments on prayer)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9973\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GrevGefyr-17-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GrevGefyr-17-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GrevGefyr-17.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a strange paradox. When something isn\u2019t very important, it\u2019s not so difficult to concentrate. When we\u2019re watching television we don\u2019t suffer particularly from an inability to concentrate and attend [&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-9972","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\/9972","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=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9974,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}