{"id":20480,"date":"2014-03-12T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=20480"},"modified":"2014-03-11T08:47:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:47:53","slug":"self-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/self-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Lent.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25251 aligncenter\" alt=\"Lent\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Lent.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Lent.png 600w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Lent-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>Self-denial, then, is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; and self-mastery makes possible our self-giving and self-fulfillment. Sin, according to this view, is not wanting too much, but rather settling for too little! It&#8217;s settling for self-gratification rather than self-fulfillment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; First Comes Love, Scott Hahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-denial, then, is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; and self-mastery makes possible our self-giving and self-fulfillment. Sin, according to this view, is not wanting too much, but rather settling for too little! It&#8217;s settling for self-gratification rather than self-fulfillment. &#8211; First Comes Love, Scott Hahn<\/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":[802,885,135,1773],"class_list":["post-20480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-fasting","tag-lent","tag-scott-hahn","tag-self-mastery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20480","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=20480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20483,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20480\/revisions\/20483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}