{"id":11374,"date":"2012-05-05T23:15:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T06:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=11374"},"modified":"2012-05-05T23:16:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T06:16:46","slug":"the-medicine-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/05\/the-medicine-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Medicine Chest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11402\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/saint_john_chrysostom_archbishopofconstantinople-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/saint_john_chrysostom_archbishopofconstantinople-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/saint_john_chrysostom_archbishopofconstantinople.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px\"><em>&#8220;Procure books [of the Bible] that will be medicines for the soul. At least get a copy of the New Testament, the Apostle&#8217;s epistles, the Acts, the Gospels, for your constant teachers. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px\"><em>If you encounter grief, dive into them as into a chest of medicines; take from them comfort for your trouble, whether it be loss, or death, or bereavement over the loss of relations. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px\"><em>Don&#8217;t simply dive into them. Swim in them. Keep them constantly in your mind. The cause of all evils is the failure to know the Scriptures well.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; St. John Chrysostom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Procure books [of the Bible] that will be medicines for the soul. At least get a copy of the New Testament, the Apostle&#8217;s epistles, the Acts, the Gospels, for your constant teachers. If you encounter grief, dive into them as into a chest of medicines; take from them comfort for your trouble, whether it be loss, or death, or bereavement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[302,51,1084,136,146],"class_list":["post-11374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-bible","tag-early-church-fathers","tag-medicine","tag-scripture","tag-st-john-chrysostom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}