{"id":2786,"date":"2005-12-20T08:19:52","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T13:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2005-12-20T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T13:22:54","slug":"from-the-archives-what-are-you-doing-on-december-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/12\/from-the-archives-what-are-you-doing-on-december-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives: What Are You Doing on December 23rd?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=208\">this post<\/a> two years ago, its title was an open-ended question. This year, at least, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/broadcast\/misc\/0,18210,5003-1-121-901,00.html\">reasonably official Mormon answer<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The commemorative broadcast has caused some members of the Bloggernacle concern: partly because of fears over what others will think of a big, churchwide event so close to Christmas which honors Joseph Smith rather than Jesus Christ, and partly just because the proximity of the broadcast to the holiday itself is a little disruptive. What should we make of &#8220;Smithmas?,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bycommonconsent.com\/2005\/12\/dealing-with-smithmas\/\">they<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ldsliberationfront.net\/confusing-church-and-culture-joseph-smith-and-christmas\/\">thoughtfully<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millennialstar.org\/index.php\/2005\/12\/19\/thoughts_on_the_rhetoric_of_christmas\">ask<\/a>. For my part, I&#8217;m looking forward to the broadcast, and actually really hope that it helps to jump-start a more regular and ritualized commemoration of Joseph Smith in the church&#8211;but then, I&#8217;m a <a href=\"http:\/\/inmedias.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/on-holidays-and-other-invented.html\">nut for holidays<\/a>. Still, there are some valid concerns out there. When we discussed this matter <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=208\">before<\/a>, some similar concerns were voiced, and some similar solutions proposed (such as turning June 27th, the day Joseph was murdered, into our own Mormon Martyrs&#8217; Day&#8211;I&#8217;d be in favor of that too). Anyway, check out the thread&#8211;but if you have something to add, say it there, not here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote this post two years ago, its title was an open-ended question. This year, at least, there is a reasonably official Mormon answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn","category-mormon-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}