{"id":16069,"date":"2011-06-28T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=16069"},"modified":"2011-06-28T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T04:04:47","slug":"a-mormon-image-surrender-dorothy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/a-mormon-image-surrender-dorothy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mormon Image: Surrender Dorothy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16070\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"0--SurrenderDorothy-DCTemple\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/0-SurrenderDorothy-DCTemple.jpg\" alt=\"0--SurrenderDorothy-DCTemple\" width=\"296\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/0-SurrenderDorothy-DCTemple.jpg 296w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/0-SurrenderDorothy-DCTemple-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/>I grew up in the Washington DC area, and fondly remember driving on the capitol beltway from the east toward the Temple and seeing the &#8220;Surrender Dorothy&#8221; graffiti on a railroad bridge, soon after the Temple had appeared to rise from the ground in front of me. I&#8217;ve regularly laughed at the sly commentary on the Temple&#8217;s architectural similarity to the Emerald City of the <em>Wizard of Oz<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/surrender-dorothy-painted-on-a-beltway-overpass--whats-the-story\/2011\/06\/23\/AGduf6kH_story.html\">Washington Post&#8217;s answerman<\/a> ran the above photo and asked for information about who the graffiti artist was and why he risked life and limb to repeatedly make this statement. I would find it quite amusing if the perpetrator were LDS!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in the Washington DC area, and fondly remember driving on the capitol beltway from the east toward the Temple and seeing the &#8220;Surrender Dorothy&#8221; graffiti on a railroad bridge, soon after the Temple had appeared to rise from the ground in front of me. I&#8217;ve regularly laughed at the sly commentary on the Temple&#8217;s architectural similarity to the Emerald City of the Wizard of Oz. Yesterday, the Washington Post&#8217;s answerman ran the above photo and asked for information about who the graffiti artist was and why he risked life and limb to repeatedly make this statement. I would find it quite amusing if the perpetrator were LDS! Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1300],"tags":[1405],"class_list":["post-16069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latter-day-saint-images","tag-a-mormon-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16074,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16069\/revisions\/16074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}