{"id":18139,"date":"2013-03-11T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=18139"},"modified":"2013-03-24T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T23:10:22","slug":"measuring-yourself-against-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/11\/measuring-yourself-against-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring yourself against others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-18482\" alt=\"Ruler\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Ruler.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Ruler.png 650w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Ruler-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>A hermit said to a brother, &#8220;Do not measure yourself\u00a0against\u00a0your brother, saying that you are more serious or more chaste or more understanding than he is. But be obedient to the grace of God, in the spirit of poverty, and in love unfeigned. The efforts of a man swollen with vanity are futile. It is written, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Cor%2010:12&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall&#8221;<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Col%204:6&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;let your speech be seasoned with salt&#8221;<\/a> and so you will be dependent upon Christ.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hermit said to a brother, &#8220;Do not measure yourself\u00a0against\u00a0your brother, saying that you are more serious or more chaste or more understanding than he is. But be obedient to the grace of God, in the spirit of poverty, and in love unfeigned. The efforts of a man swollen with vanity are futile. It is written, &#8220;Let him that thinks<\/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":[2067,2065,2066],"class_list":["post-18139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-arrogance","tag-comparison","tag-vanity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139","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=18139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18483,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions\/18483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}