{"id":20343,"date":"2013-09-25T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=20343"},"modified":"2013-09-24T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T16:28:16","slug":"clearing-your-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/25\/clearing-your-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing your plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>A hermit was fasting and not eating bread, and he went to visit another hermit. By chance some other pilgrims came there and the hermit made them a little vegetable soup. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>When they sat down to eat, the fasting hermit took a single pea which he dipped in the soup and chewed it. When they got up from the table, the hermit took him to one side and said, &#8220;Brother, if you visit someone, don&#8217;t make a display there of your way of life. If you want to keep your own rule, stay in your cell and never go out.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>The brother accepted the advice, and thenceforth behaved like other people and ate what was put before him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hermit was fasting and not eating bread, and he went to visit another hermit. By chance some other pilgrims came there and the hermit made them a little vegetable soup. When they sat down to eat, the fasting hermit took a single pea which he dipped in the soup and chewed it. When they got up from the table,<\/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-20343","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\/20343","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=20343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22121,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20343\/revisions\/22121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}