{"id":20348,"date":"2013-09-27T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=20348"},"modified":"2013-09-27T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T22:36:15","slug":"forgetfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/forgetfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgetfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>A brother asked a hermit, &#8220;Abba, look here, I ask my elders questions, and they talk to me for the good of my soul, and I remember nothing they say. Is it any use asking questions when I gain nothing by it? I am deeply sinful.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>There were two empty vessels nearby. The hermit said, &#8220;Take one of those vessels and put oil in it, rinse it, pour out the oil, and bring the vessel back.&#8221; He did so. He said, &#8220;Do it again.&#8221; He did so. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>After he had done it several times, the hermit said, &#8220;Now take both vessels and see which is cleaner.&#8221; He answered, &#8220;The one into which I put oil.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>The hermit said, &#8220;It&#8217;s the same for the one who asks questions. Although you remember nothing that you have heard, your soul will be cleaner than that of someone who never even asks questions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brother asked a hermit, &#8220;Abba, look here, I ask my elders questions, and they talk to me for the good of my soul, and I remember nothing they say. Is it any use asking questions when I gain nothing by it? I am deeply sinful.&#8221; There were two empty vessels nearby. The hermit said, &#8220;Take one of those vessels<\/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-20348","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\/20348","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=20348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22124,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348\/revisions\/22124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}