{"id":20988,"date":"2012-06-17T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=20988"},"modified":"2012-06-17T15:38:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T20:38:03","slug":"urban-mormonism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/urban-mormonism\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Mormonism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the sacrament was passed in the rural ward we attended today, my younger daughter looked at the deacons passing the sacrament and asked, &#8220;Why are those kids doing that?&#8221;[fn1]<\/p>\n<p>(My wife tells me that my older daughter noticed the same thing.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>[fn1] Just in case it&#8217;s not clear what my daughters are talking about, there is one teenage boy in our ward (but another turns 12 in a month or so!). And that&#8217;s not a significant outlier in my perhaps limited experience. So my daughters have rarely seen a bunch of 12- and 13-year-olds get up after the sacrament is blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the sacrament was passed in the rural ward we attended today, my younger daughter looked at the deacons passing the sacrament and asked, &#8220;Why are those kids doing that?&#8221;[fn1] (My wife tells me that my older daughter noticed the same thing.) &#8212; [fn1] Just in case it&#8217;s not clear what my daughters are talking about, there is one teenage boy in our ward (but another turns 12 in a month or so!). And that&#8217;s not a significant outlier in my perhaps limited experience. So my daughters have rarely seen a bunch of 12- and 13-year-olds get up after the sacrament is blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggernacle","category-parenting"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20988","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\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21007,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20988\/revisions\/21007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}