{"id":2561,"date":"2005-09-02T12:12:03","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2005-09-01T16:13:50","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T20:13:50","slug":"the-taste-of-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/09\/the-taste-of-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taste of Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish that we didn&#8217;t use white bread for the sacrament.  <!--more-->I don&#8217;t really know where the tradition started.  I suspect that it probably began as an issue of cost, but it seems to have hardened into an unwritten rule of sorts.  Perhaps there is some notion that white bread somehow symbolizes purity and cleanliness.  As I have suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php?p=2420\">elsewhere<\/a>, I don&#8217;t think it is unimportant that the sacrament involves eating something.<\/p>\n<p>I wish, however, that we had a special kind of sacrament bread with a very distinctive taste.  It would wonderful if each week when I took the sacrament I experienced a taste that was only available in that ritual and which I could identify with the taste of atonement and salvation.  Lehi dwells at some length on the taste of the fruit of the tree of life.  I can&#8217;t help but thinking that it was something more powerful and unique than Wonder Bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish that we didn&#8217;t use white bread for the sacrament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-2561","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\/2561","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}