{"id":587,"date":"2014-10-14T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T10:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=587"},"modified":"2014-10-14T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T10:58:22","slug":"chanting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Chanting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When we feel upset we should chant. Chanting drives away the devil because it&#8217;s prayer and at the same time it&#8217;s contempt for the tempter. We shouldn&#8217;t fight blasphemous thoughts with the Jesus prayer \u2013 that just opens up a new front with the devil and he attacks us even more. We ought to chant hymns instead and when the devil sees us treating his suggestions with disdain he&#8217;ll get so angry he&#8217;ll go to pieces.&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Paisios<br \/>\n~Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/183773_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-588\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/183773_t.jpg\" alt=\"183773_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When we feel upset we should chant. Chanting drives away the devil because it&#8217;s prayer and at the same time it&#8217;s contempt for the tempter. We shouldn&#8217;t fight blasphemous thoughts with the Jesus prayer \u2013 that just opens up a new front with the devil and he attacks us even more. We ought to chant [&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-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}