{"id":16880,"date":"2011-09-01T18:33:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T23:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=16880"},"modified":"2011-09-01T18:33:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T23:33:42","slug":"in-which-my-opinion-of-mitch-mayne-improves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/in-which-my-opinion-of-mitch-mayne-improves\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which My Opinion of Mitch Mayne Improves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in awhile, I read or hear something that just zings. <!--more--> It someone manages to encapsulate in &#8220;the little narrow prison[,] almost as it were total darkness of paper, pen, and ink&#8221; the love that Jesus Christ has for us.  I read something today that managed that; it concerns Mitch Mayne, a gay member of the Church in California who was recently called as an executive secretary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jason Harris-Boundy, Mayne\u2019s friend . . . hear[d] Mayne giving his introductory remarks in his new San Francisco ward.  After that meeting, he overheard Mayne telling an attendee, &#8216;Look, if you want to change your life, we are super-excited to help you do that. If you just want us to love you and care for you as a brother, we are super-excited to do that, too.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While I have some concerns over what he presented and how he presented it on his website, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/news\/52486958-78\/mayne-gay-lds-ward.html.csp?page=2\">quote<\/a> (assuming it is accurate, blahblahblah) suggests to me that he Gets It.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in awhile, I read or hear something that just zings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16880","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\/16880","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16880"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16886,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880\/revisions\/16886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}