{"id":1082,"date":"2004-07-22T11:54:12","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2009-01-20T12:44:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:44:47","slug":"elder-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/07\/elder-maxwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder Maxwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"maxwell.bmp\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/maxwell.bmp\" width=\"100\" align=right \/>Last General Conference, Elder Neal A. Maxwell&#8217;s talk was a <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lds.org\/nxt\/gateway.dll\/Magazines\/Ensign\/2004.htm\/ensign%20may%202004.htm\/remember%20how%20merciful%20the%20lord%20hath%20been.htm\">collection of friendly reminiscences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/newsroom\/showrelease\/0,15503,3881-1-19712,00.html\">the church&#8217;s wordsmith passed away<\/a>.  The leader who provided us with the wonderful imagery of <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lds.org\/nxt\/gateway.dll\/Magazines\/Ensign\/1974.htm\/ensign%20november%201974.htm\/why%20not%20now%20.htm\">straightening deck chairs on the Titanic<\/a>, and who always seemed to spin off gems like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/library.lds.org\/nxt\/gateway.dll\/Magazines\/Ensign\/1987.htm\/ensign%20may%201987.htm\/overcome%20%20even%20as%20i%20also%20overcame.htm\">If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!&#8221;<\/a>, is now smithing words with the smith of worlds.  We&#8217;ll certainly miss him here on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last General Conference, Elder Neal A. Maxwell&#8217;s talk was a collection of friendly reminiscences. Last night, the church&#8217;s wordsmith passed away. The leader who provided us with the wonderful imagery of straightening deck chairs on the Titanic, and who always seemed to spin off gems like &#8220;If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!&#8221;, is now smithing words with the smith of worlds. We&#8217;ll certainly miss him here on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mormon-life","tag-church-organization-and-structure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}