{"id":493,"date":"2025-03-08T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/?p=493"},"modified":"2026-08-13T23:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:24:42","slug":"spiritual-practice-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/spiritual-practice-difficulties\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Practice Difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"quote-post-featured-image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1728\" height=\"2304\" src=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/spiritual-practice-difficulties.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/spiritual-practice-difficulties.png 1728w, https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/spiritual-practice-difficulties-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/spiritual-practice-difficulties-768x1024.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We do not choose spiritual practice to avert difficulties, we choose spiritual practice to be able to face whatever challenge is in front of us. <\/p>\n<cite>Theodore Tsaousidis<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do not choose spiritual practice to avert difficulties, we choose spiritual practice to be able to face whatever challenge is in front of us. Theodore Tsaousidis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quotes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}