{"id":268,"date":"2014-07-06T12:08:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T12:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=268"},"modified":"2014-07-06T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T12:08:40","slug":"spiritual-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Economy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To begin with and I first started to hear confessions I used to release called those who came to make confession.\u2026 If he confessed a serious sin then I would look up in the book I would see what it wrote&#8230; [a year later he returns] &#8220;what did I tell you?&#8221; &#8220;You told me to do 100 prostrations every night.&#8221; &#8220;And did you do them?&#8221; &#8220;No.&#8221; &#8220;Why not?&#8221; &#8220;Well you told me that I couldn&#8217;t receive communion for 18 years so I thought to myself, &#8220;since I&#8217;m damned anyway I might as well forget about the whole thing.&#8221; Then another person would come and say the same thing. It was then I began to become a little wiser&#8230;and changed my tactics in confession.&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Porphyrios<br \/>\n~Wounded by Love<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/177015_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/177015_t.jpg\" alt=\"177015_t\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To begin with and I first started to hear confessions I used to release called those who came to make confession.\u2026 If he confessed a serious sin then I would look up in the book I would see what it wrote&#8230; [a year later he returns] &#8220;what did I tell you?&#8221; &#8220;You told me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}