{"id":806,"date":"2014-12-29T18:38:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=806"},"modified":"2014-12-29T18:38:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:38:04","slug":"modern-attitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Modern Attitudes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the time of the iconoclasts ten Christians who stoutly defended the icon of Christ at the Bronze Door of the palace in Constantinople were martyred for it. Now Christ&#8217;s person is being blasphemed and we must not be indifferent. If knowledgeable and discerning people like us lived at that time they would have said to the ten martyrs, &#8220;That&#8217;s not how to be spiritual. So the Emperor&#8217;s soldiers are coming to destroy the icon \u2013 never mind. When things change we will put another icon there and it&#8217;ll even be more Byzantine.&#8221; We try to make our downfall, our cowardice, are self-serving attitude appear to be something exalted. It makes me shudder.&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Paisios<br \/>\n~Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/192867_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-807\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/192867_t.jpg\" alt=\"192867_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the time of the iconoclasts ten Christians who stoutly defended the icon of Christ at the Bronze Door of the palace in Constantinople were martyred for it. Now Christ&#8217;s person is being blasphemed and we must not be indifferent. If knowledgeable and discerning people like us lived at that time they would have said [&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-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}