{"id":33420,"date":"2015-05-30T17:34:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T22:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=33420"},"modified":"2015-05-30T17:44:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T22:44:01","slug":"elder-l-tom-perry-1922-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/elder-l-tom-perry-1922-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder L. Tom Perry, 1922-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10887442_10153275854666550_3292516284845257508_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-33421\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10887442_10153275854666550_3292516284845257508_o-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"10887442_10153275854666550_3292516284845257508_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10887442_10153275854666550_3292516284845257508_o-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10887442_10153275854666550_3292516284845257508_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10887442_10153275854666550_3292516284845257508_o.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The church <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonnewsroom.org\/article\/elder-l-tom-perry-does-at-age-92?cid=social_20150530_46721736&amp;adbid=10153275854666550&amp;adbpl=fb&amp;adbpr=18523396549\">announced<\/a> that Elder Perry died today.\u00a0<!--more-->Here are a few links to previous T &amp; S posts about him:<\/p>\n<p>A review of his biography <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/book-review-l-tom-perry-an-uncommon-life\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A discussion of one of his talks <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/elder-perry-and-the-churchs-image\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any recollections of experiences with Elder Perry or thoughts about his talks, you are welcome to share them here. (Here&#8217;s a fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/05\/deeply-sad-about-elder-perry.html\">one<\/a> from Daniel Peterson.)\u00a0I had no personal experience with Elder Perry, but my husband still remembers Elder Perry visiting the MTC at Christmastime and visiting with the missionaries while wearing a Santa hat.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a eulogy thread&#8211;not the place for criticism. Please observe that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church announced that Elder Perry died today.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/10887442_10153275854666550_3292516284845257508_o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33420","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=33420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33425,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33420\/revisions\/33425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}