{"id":1667,"date":"2014-10-26T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2014-10-24T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:06:24","slug":"saint-of-the-week-20141026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1667","title":{"rendered":"Saint of the Week &#8212; 20141026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DEMETRIUS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1659\" src=\"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DEMETRIUS.jpg\" alt=\"DEMETRIUS\" width=\"322\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DEMETRIUS.jpg 322w, https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DEMETRIUS-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DEMETRIUS<\/strong> &#8211; son of one of the preeminent families of Thessalonika, he was an\u00a0\u00a0 officer in the Roman army. He organized the Christian youth of the city. Because of his social standing, he was not originally persecuted. In 303, however, a Roman decree led to his execution in the city\u2019s stadium. The Byzantine armies considered him their patron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEMETRIUS &#8211; son of one of the preeminent families of Thessalonika, he was an\u00a0\u00a0 officer in the Roman army. He organized the Christian youth of the city. Because of his social standing, he was not originally persecuted. In 303, however, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=1667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}