{"id":1393,"date":"2004-10-01T14:34:19","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T18:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2004-10-01T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T18:35:45","slug":"mormons-and-government-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/10\/mormons-and-government-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormons and Government Benefits &#8212; Bloggernacle discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relatively new LDS blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nine-moons.blogspot.com\/\">Nine Moons<\/a> continues to roll, as <a href=\"http:\/\/nine-moons.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/little-utah.html\">Amy discusses the ethical and spiritual issues with Mormons who accept the financial benefits of government &#8220;loopholes<\/a>.&#8221;  She suggests that this behavior may be particularly common among church members.  (I won&#8217;t way that she&#8217;s wrong).  It&#8217;s a very interesting question:  Is it honest to  strain to take advantage of legal loopholes that allow one to save taxes or receive benefits, even if such practices are legally acceptable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relatively new LDS blog Nine Moons continues to roll, as Amy discusses the ethical and spiritual issues with Mormons who accept the financial benefits of government &#8220;loopholes.&#8221; She suggests that this behavior may be particularly common among church members. (I won&#8217;t way that she&#8217;s wrong). It&#8217;s a very interesting question: Is it honest to strain to take advantage of legal loopholes that allow one to save taxes or receive benefits, even if such practices are legally acceptable?<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","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=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}