{"id":2499,"date":"2005-08-07T23:07:34","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T03:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2005-08-08T01:11:40","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T05:11:40","slug":"searching-the-scriptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/08\/searching-the-scriptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching the Scriptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks back, I posted a short thing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theconglomerate.org\/2005\/07\/searching_for_h.html\">Conglomerate<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/archives\/2005\/07\/10\/015051.php\">Blogcritics<\/a> about my search for <em>Harry Potter &amp; The Half-blood Prince<\/em>.<!--more--> After the book was released, people started commenting on the Blogcritics post, and the debate is still raging: 388 comments and counting!<\/p>\n<p>That debate &#8212; plus a provocative post from <a href=\"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/half-blood-prince-review-up-to-next.html\">Russell<\/a> &#8212; got my juices flowing, and after completing the book, I engaged my oldest daughter in an extended conversation about Snape&#8217;s true nature. Last week, she attended <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php?p=1843\">Especially For Youth<\/a> at BYU, where she shared some of our insights with one of her dance partners. She said that he listened attentively then remarked, &#8220;Wow! Do you study the scriptures like that?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks back, I posted a short thing on Conglomerate and Blogcritics about my search for Harry Potter &amp; The Half-blood Prince.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-2499","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\/2499","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}