{"id":1449,"date":"2004-10-14T19:09:07","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2004-10-14T19:09:07","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T23:09:07","slug":"an-early-halloween-for-mormons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/10\/an-early-halloween-for-mormons\/","title":{"rendered":"An Early Halloween for Mormons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/news\/articles\/1014Halloween14.html\">this story says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will do Halloween things on Saturday, Arizona spokesman Don Evans said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When a holiday such as this falls on Sunday, we automatically celebrate on the previous day,&#8221; he said. &#8220;One of the Ten Commandments is to keep the Sabbath holy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting.  Is this official?  I don&#8217;t remember doing this before, but maybe I&#8217;m just forgetful.  (And I don&#8217;t recall hearing about that in church here &#8212; but perhaps it was mentioned when I was distracted chasing the kids.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what this story says: Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will do Halloween things on Saturday, Arizona spokesman Don Evans said. &#8220;When a holiday such as this falls on Sunday, we automatically celebrate on the previous day,&#8221; he said. &#8220;One of the Ten Commandments is to keep the Sabbath holy.&#8221; Interesting. Is this official? I don&#8217;t remember doing this before, but maybe I&#8217;m just forgetful. (And I don&#8217;t recall hearing about that in church here &#8212; but perhaps it was mentioned when I was distracted chasing the kids.)<\/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-1449","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\/1449","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=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}