{"id":7604,"date":"2022-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/selected-scenes\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:30:02","slug":"selected-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/selected-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I spent an hour on a public road. In their cars, people are stories (to be told). I have chosen for you these three scenes: 1- A man in his car, his wife sitting next to him, carrying a child, was smoking a cigarette with the contemplation of a journalist writing an article! 2- A bride in her wedding dress with her groom resting beside her in a car driven by someone else. They were both looking out of the window next to each of them! 3- A woman is driving her car, talking to someone on her phone, and hitting a child behind her with her hand! Each of these self-revelatory scenes is telling a sad story. I do not want to hurt your eyes with a comment. However, I cannot refrain from saying: are these scenes not an image of the excessive selfishness which is one of the features of many in our society? Who will remind us that life consists of a face that is given to joy and to the support of communion of life on earth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I spent an hour on a public road. In their cars, people are stories (to be told). I have chosen for you these three scenes: 1- A man in his car, his wife sitting next to him, carrying a child, was smoking a cigarette with the contemplation of a journalist writing an article! 2- ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[2090,2813,1435,2812,2477],"class_list":["post-7604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-reflection","tag-human-behavior","tag-orthodox-life","tag-selfishness","tag-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}