{"id":8719,"date":"2023-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/a-cure-of-gold\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:49:29","slug":"a-cure-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/a-cure-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cure of Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the presidents of Lebanon used to say that there are two gratuitous cures that benefit life, and that are neglected by most Lebanese: drinking water and walking. These are two among other cures that we can add to them. For instance, prayer, friendship and reading... Let's take reading today. Reading a book, especially if its topic appeals to us, helps us overcome wearisome illnesses, like boredom, tension, insipidity and \u201cvoicelessness\u201d\u2026, it even gives us a new birth. Many examples can be given of this. See, for instance, the biography of Dr. Benjamin Carson, or watch the movie \"Gifted Hands\" about him: Carson\u2019s mother gave him birth twice! The second birth was when she made him read two books per week. Reading transformed him from someone who considered himself weak into a world-class brain surgeon with great achievements. Take these medicines in your spare time. These make life of gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the presidents of Lebanon used to say that there are two gratuitous cures that benefit life, and that are neglected by most Lebanese: drinking water and walking. These are two among other cures that we can add to them. For instance, prayer, friendship and reading... Let's take reading today. Reading a book, especially ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1712,1293,1991,1713,1241],"class_list":["post-8719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-books","tag-orthodox-christian-life","tag-personal-transformation","tag-reading","tag-spiritual-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8880,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions\/8880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}