{"id":17977,"date":"2013-03-02T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=17977"},"modified":"2013-03-02T16:04:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T23:04:24","slug":"crown-of-temptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/02\/crown-of-temptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Fathers: Crown of Temptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-17978\" alt=\"crown\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/crown.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/crown.jpg 350w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/crown-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>A hermit said that for nine years a brother was goaded by his thoughts to despair of his salvation. He judged himself and said, &#8220;I have ruined myself, I have perished already, I will go back to the world.&#8221; On his journey he heard a voice saying, &#8220;Those temptations which you endured for nine years were your crowns. Go back to your cell, and I will take these evil thoughts from you.&#8221; So he realized that it is not right to despair of oneself because of the temptations that come. If we use these thoughts well they will give us a crown.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A hermit said that for nine years a brother was goaded by his thoughts to despair of his salvation. He judged himself and said, &#8220;I have ruined myself, I have perished already, I will go back to the world.&#8221; On his journey he heard a voice saying, &#8220;Those temptations which you endured for nine years were your crowns. Go<\/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":[2052,1891,1522],"class_list":["post-17977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-crown","tag-desert-fathers","tag-temptation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17977","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=17977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18083,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17977\/revisions\/18083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}