{"id":4625,"date":"2018-09-03T11:32:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2018-09-03T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:34:04","slug":"4625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4625","title":{"rendered":"Holy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHoly\u201d is the real name of God, of the God \u201cnot of scholars and philosophers,\u201d but of the living God of faith. The knowledge\u00a0<em>about<\/em>\u00a0God results in definitions and distinctions. The knowledge\u00a0<em>of<\/em>\u00a0God leads to this one, incomprehensible, yet obvious and inescapable word: holy. And in this word we express both that God is the Absolutely Other, the One\u00a0<em>about\u00a0<\/em>whom we know nothing, and that He is the end of all our hunger, all our desires, the inaccessible One who mobilizes our wills, the mysterious treasure that attracts us, and there is really nothing to know but Him. \u201cHoly\u201d is the word, the song, the \u201creaction\u201d of the Church as it enters into heaven, as it stands before the heavenly glory of God.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Alexander Schmemann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHoly\u201d is the real name of God, of the God \u201cnot of scholars and philosophers,\u201d but of the living God of faith. The knowledge\u00a0about\u00a0God results in definitions and distinctions. The knowledge\u00a0of\u00a0God leads to this one, incomprehensible, yet obvious and inescapable word: holy. And in this word we express both that God is the Absolutely Other, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}