{"id":41947,"date":"2021-07-13T13:27:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/?p=41947"},"modified":"2021-07-13T13:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T18:28:49","slug":"a-scriptural-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/a-scriptural-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scriptural Prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day while I was serving my mission, my companion told me that he knew the name of the Holy Ghost.\u00a0 I told him I was doubtful, but he insisted that it was Eden. \u00a0He opened his scriptures to Doctrine and Covenants, Section 80, pointed to Eden Smith\u2019s name, and told me to look at the footnote (2a).\u00a0 I did so and was surprised to see that it indicated that Eden Smith was indeed the Holy Ghost.\u00a0 I found this very confusing and worked on puzzling out this mystery for a minute or two before finally figuring out what was going on (much to my companion\u2019s amusement).\u00a0 I\u2019ve shared the image below and will let you do the same.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41948 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Eden-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Eden-Smith.jpg 525w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Eden-Smith-360x536.jpg 360w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Eden-Smith-260x387.jpg 260w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Eden-Smith-160x238.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day while I was serving my mission, my companion told me that he knew the name of the Holy Ghost.\u00a0 I told him I was doubtful, but he insisted that it was Eden. \u00a0He opened his scriptures to Doctrine and Covenants, Section 80, pointed to Eden Smith\u2019s name, and told me to look at the footnote (2a).\u00a0 I did so and was surprised to see that it indicated that Eden Smith was indeed the Holy Ghost.\u00a0 I found this very confusing and worked on puzzling out this mystery for a minute or two before finally figuring out what was going on (much to my companion\u2019s amusement).\u00a0 I\u2019ve shared the image below and will let you do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10397,"featured_media":41948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scriptures"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Eden-Smith.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41947","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\/10397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41949,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41947\/revisions\/41949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}