{"id":24396,"date":"2009-03-05T14:45:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/a-friend-visits\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:45:50","slug":"a-friend-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/a-friend-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"A friend visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Michael%20Philips%20%26%20PAZ%205%20March%202009.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 20px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" height=\"262\" alt=\"Michael Philips &amp; PAZ 5 March 2009.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Michael%20Philips%20&amp;%20PAZ%205%20March%202009-thumb-350x262.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/span>A very dear friend was visiting me at the Abbey this week. Father Michael is an Orthodox monk following the <em>Rule of Saint Benedict<\/em> at a small monastery called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christminster.org\/\">Christminster<\/a> just outside Toronto, Canada. It was delightful to have him here for a few days; until recently he was on the left coast of these United States and so I am grateful that he&#8217;s back in the east, well, sort of east&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The Wiki note on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christ_the_Saviour_Monastery\">Christminster<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very dear friend was visiting me at the Abbey this week. Father Michael is an Orthodox monk following the Rule of Saint Benedict at a small monastery called Christminster just outside Toronto, Canada. It was delightful to have him here for a few days; until recently he was on the left coast of these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/a-friend-visits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A friend visits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}