{"id":20358,"date":"2013-12-01T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=20358"},"modified":"2013-12-01T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T19:41:08","slug":"sowing-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/01\/sowing-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowing Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>A brother said to Poemen, &#8220;If I give my brother something, for instance a piece of bread, the demons made the gift worthless by making me think that it was done to please men.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><em>The hermit said to him, &#8220;Even if it is done to please me, we still ought to give our brothers what they need.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>He told him this\u00a0parable &#8220;In a town there were two farmers. One of them sowed seed, and and gathered a poor harvest; the other was idle and did not sow, and had no harvest to gather. If famine came, which of them would survive? The brother answered, &#8220;The one who sowed seed, even if the harvest was poor.&#8221; He said, &#8220;It is the same for us. We sow a few seeds, and they are poor, but in the time of famine we shall not die.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brother said to Poemen, &#8220;If I give my brother something, for instance a piece of bread, the demons made the gift worthless by making me think that it was done to please men.&#8221;\u00a0The hermit said to him, &#8220;Even if it is done to please me, we still ought to give our brothers what they need.&#8221; He told him this\u00a0parable<\/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":[1891,287],"class_list":["post-20358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-desert-fathers","tag-seed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20358","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=20358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21589,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20358\/revisions\/21589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}