{"id":21645,"date":"2013-12-03T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=21645"},"modified":"2013-11-18T21:51:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T04:51:05","slug":"resisting-passions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/03\/resisting-passions\/","title":{"rendered":"Resisting Passions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot at by an enemy, catches the arrow in his hands, and then plunges it into his own heart. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>A man who is resisting his passions is like a man who is shot at by an enemy, and although the arrow hits him, it does not seriously wound him because he is wearing a breastplate. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>But the man who is uprooting his passions is like a man who is shot at by an enemy, but who strikes the arrow and shatters it or turns it back into his enemy&#8217;s heart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dorotheos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot at by an enemy, catches the arrow in his hands, and then plunges it into his own heart. A man who is resisting his passions is like a man who is shot at by an enemy, and although the arrow hits him, it does not<\/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":[17],"tags":[1891,2357],"class_list":["post-21645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-desert-fathers","tag-dorotheos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645","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=21645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21646,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions\/21646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}