{"id":3209,"date":"2009-03-31T01:02:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T05:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2018-11-15T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T19:41:55","slug":"prayer-is-a-conversation-of-man-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/prayer-is-a-conversation-of-man-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer is a Conversation of Man with God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer is a conversation of man with God.  He who prays with a broken and humbled spirit is filled with divine gifts and blessings \u2014 that is, with joy, peace, comfort, illumination and consolation \u2014 and he, too, becomes blessed.  Prayer is the double-edged sword that slays despair, saves from danger, assuages grief, and so on.  Prayer is a preventive medicine for all diseases of soul and body. <em>&#8212; Elder Ephraim of Mt. Athos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer is a conversation of man with God. He who prays with a broken and humbled spirit is filled with divine gifts and blessings \u2014 that is, with joy, peace, comfort, illumination and consolation \u2014 and he, too, becomes blessed. Prayer is the double-edged sword that slays despair, saves from danger, assuages grief, and so &#8230; <a title=\"Prayer is a Conversation of Man with God\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/prayer-is-a-conversation-of-man-with-god\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Prayer is a Conversation of Man with God\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}