{"id":20367,"date":"2013-12-05T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=20367"},"modified":"2020-02-24T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:44:08","slug":"gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"553\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gossip.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gossip.jpg 860w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gossip-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gossip-768x494.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Cassian told a story of a hermit who was living in the desert&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>He asked God to grant that he should never fall asleep when the conversation was edifying but that if anyone spoke with back-biting or hate, he should nod off at once so that he would not hear poisonous words.&nbsp;<\/em><em>He said that the devil strives hard to make men speak idle words, and fights against letting anyone hear any spiritual teaching.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>He gave the following example of this: Once when I was talking to some brothers for the good of their souls they became so drowsy that they could not even keep their eyelids open. I wanted to show them that this was the devil&#8217;s work, so I started gossiping, and at once they sat up and began to enjoy what I was saying. But I said saldy, &#8220;We were talking of heaven just now, and your eyes were closing in slumber: but the moment the talk became frivolous, you all began to listen eagerly. I beg you then, dear brothers, since you know that this is the work of the devil, be watchful and beware of falling asleep when you are hearing about spiritual things.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;&nbsp;De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassian told a story of a hermit who was living in the desert&#8230; He asked God to grant that he should never fall asleep when the conversation was edifying but that if anyone spoke with back-biting or hate, he should nod off at once so that he would not hear poisonous words.&nbsp;He said that the devil strives hard to make<\/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-20367","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\/20367","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=20367"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75319,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367\/revisions\/75319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}