{"id":36807,"date":"2017-07-01T10:14:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T15:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=36807"},"modified":"2017-07-07T17:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T22:14:58","slug":"a-mormon-image-scriptures-deconstructed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2017\/07\/a-mormon-image-scriptures-deconstructed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mormon Image: Scriptures Deconstructed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36808\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/scriptures-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/scriptures-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/scriptures-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/scriptures-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/scriptures-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/scriptures-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/scriptures.jpg 1630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I left my scriptures on the roof of my car when driving home from church. When I realized what I&#8217;d done I returned to find the pages scattered all over the road. These were my mission scriptures and they meant a lot to me so I spent about an hour gathering as many pages as I could. This is the result. In some ways this photograph symbolizes the process I have been through of deconstructing the very sure faith of my mission. My faith today is a lot less certain and much messier, but it feels a lot more personal and therefore more meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>~\u00a0James Gregson<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><em>If you have a photograph you would like to submit for consideration in our A Mormon Image series, please <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2017\/06\/reviving-our-a-mormon-image-photo-series\/\">see here<\/a> for our submission requirements.<\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I left my scriptures on the roof of my car when driving home from church. When I realized what I&#8217;d done I returned to find the pages scattered all over the road. These were my mission scriptures and they meant a lot to me so I spent about an hour gathering as many pages as I could. This is the result. In some ways this photograph symbolizes the process I have been through of deconstructing the very sure faith of my mission. My faith today is a lot less certain and much messier, but it feels a lot more personal and therefore more meaningful. ~\u00a0James Gregson If you have a photograph you would like to submit for consideration in our A Mormon Image series, please see here for our submission requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":36808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,1300],"tags":[1405],"class_list":["post-36807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-latter-day-saint-images","tag-a-mormon-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/scriptures.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36807","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36915,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36807\/revisions\/36915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}