{"id":18265,"date":"2013-03-21T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=18265"},"modified":"2013-03-24T15:59:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:59:25","slug":"uncouth-shepherding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/uncouth-shepherding\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncouth Shepherding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-18267\" alt=\"shepherd-in-wilderness\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shepherd-in-wilderness.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shepherd-in-wilderness.jpg 748w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shepherd-in-wilderness-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>Some brothers came to a holy hermit who lived in the desert and outside the hermitage they found a boy tending the sheep and using uncouth words. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>After they had told the hermit their thoughts and profited from his reply, they said, &#8220;Abba, why do you allow those boys to be here, and why don&#8217;t you order them to stop hurling abuse at each other?&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>He said &#8220;Indeed, my brothers, there are days when I want to order them to stop it, but I hold myself back, saying, if I can&#8217;t put up with this little thing, how shall I put up with a serious temptation, if God ever lets me be so tempted? So I say nothing to them, and try to get into the habit of bearing whatever happens.&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8211;\u00a0De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some brothers came to a holy hermit who lived in the desert and outside the hermitage they found a boy tending the sheep and using uncouth words. After they had told the hermit their thoughts and profited from his reply, they said, &#8220;Abba, why do you allow those boys to be here, and why don&#8217;t you order them to stop<\/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":[1891,346,567,1522,2106],"class_list":["post-18265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-desert-fathers","tag-language","tag-patience","tag-temptation","tag-uncouth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265","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=18265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18269,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265\/revisions\/18269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}