{"id":797,"date":"2014-12-26T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T14:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=797"},"modified":"2014-12-26T14:01:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T14:01:01","slug":"wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Although he was very strict with himself when he heard a monk say &#8220;Spiritual Father I can&#8217;t do my prayer rule,&#8221; he found alternative solutions for the monk. You can&#8217;t do 150 prostrations? Do 100 \u2013 but I can&#8217;t even do that many. \u2013 Well then add to your prayer rule another four lots of 300 prayer ropes with the sign of the cross instead of the prostrations. \u2013 I still have difficulty, Elder. \u2013 Well then leave it and I will do it for you until you are strengthened. Only don&#8217;t leave obedience and the services. Usually this method worked with many and the good thing was that most times he won. The brothers sense of honor was eventually pierced with the thought, &#8220;My spiritual father, an old man, is doing the prostrations for me. I should be ashamed.&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Haralambos<br \/>\n~Elder Haralambos Dionysiastis<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/193343_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-798\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/193343_t.jpg\" alt=\"193343_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Although he was very strict with himself when he heard a monk say &#8220;Spiritual Father I can&#8217;t do my prayer rule,&#8221; he found alternative solutions for the monk. You can&#8217;t do 150 prostrations? Do 100 \u2013 but I can&#8217;t even do that many. \u2013 Well then add to your prayer rule another four lots of [&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-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}