{"id":17969,"date":"2013-02-28T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=17969"},"modified":"2013-03-24T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T23:18:45","slug":"the-soft-kitty-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/the-soft-kitty-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Fathers: The Soft Kitty* Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-qra604RbU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-17970\" alt=\"Being sick\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ill.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ill.jpg 450w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ill-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>A hermit said, &#8220;If you fall ill, do not complain. If the Lord God has willed that your body should be weakened , who are you to complain about it? Does he not care for you in all your needs? Surely you would not be alive without him. Be patient in your illness and ask God to give you what is right, that is, that which will enable you to do his will, and be patient, and eat what you have in charity&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>* If this title makes no sense, please click on the above image<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hermit said, &#8220;If you fall ill, do not complain. If the Lord God has willed that your body should be weakened , who are you to complain about it? Does he not care for you in all your needs? Surely you would not be alive without him. Be patient in your illness and ask God to give you what<\/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":[17],"tags":[1810,2046,1050,567,2047],"class_list":["post-17969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-big-bang-theory","tag-complaining","tag-illness","tag-patience","tag-soft-kitty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969","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=17969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18491,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969\/revisions\/18491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}