{"id":20326,"date":"2013-09-17T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=20326"},"modified":"2013-09-17T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T14:26:12","slug":"death-where-is-thy-sting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/death-where-is-thy-sting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Death, where is thy sting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>They told a story of a hermit who was dying in Scetis. The brothers stood around his bed, and clothed him, and began to weep. But he opened his eyes and began to laugh; this happened three times. So the brothers asked him, &#8220;Abba, why are you laughing when we are weeping?&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>He told them, &#8220;I laughed the first time because you fear death; I laughed the second time because you are not ready for death; I laughed the third time because I am passing from labour to rest, and yet you weep.&#8221; As he said this, he closed his eyes and died.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They told a story of a hermit who was dying in Scetis. The brothers stood around his bed, and clothed him, and began to weep. But he opened his eyes and began to laugh; this happened three times. So the brothers asked him, &#8220;Abba, why are you laughing when we are weeping?&#8221; He told them, &#8220;I laughed the first time<\/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],"class_list":["post-20326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-desert-fathers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326","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=20326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21545,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326\/revisions\/21545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}