{"id":454,"date":"2004-02-23T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T17:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=454"},"modified":"2004-09-25T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2004-09-25T17:49:58","slug":"welcome-our-new-guest-blogger-linda-hoffman-kimball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/02\/welcome-our-new-guest-blogger-linda-hoffman-kimball\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Our New Guest Blogger: Linda Hoffman Kimball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you may already know Linda Hoffman Kimball from her work as a columnist at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/author\/author_107.html\">beliefnet.com<\/a> and for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exponentii.org\/\"><i>Exponent II<\/i><\/a>. Or from her novels (<a href=\"http:\/\/deseretbook.com\/store\/product?product_id=100011524\"><i>Home to Roost<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signaturebooks.com\/sisterb.htm\"><i>The Marketing of Sister B<\/i><\/a>). Or perhaps from the essay collection she edited, <a href=\"http:\/\/deseretbook.com\/store\/product?product_id=100011447\"><i>Saints Well-Seasoned: Musings on How Food Nourishes Us &#8212; Body, Heart and Soul<\/i><\/a>. Her latest work is <a href=\"http:\/\/deseretbook.com\/store\/product?product_id=100066636\"><i>Chocolate Chips &#038; Charity: Visiting Teaching in the Real World<\/i><\/a>, which has already cracked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedarfort.com\/bestsellers\/index.html\">Cedar Fort&#8217;s Bestseller List<\/a> even though it just came out in January.<\/p>\n<p>I first met Linda in the Hyde Park Ward on the South Side of Chicago, where she, her husband (Chris) and three children were the backbone of a very transient ward. Like me Linda was baptized into the Church during college (Wellesley College), having been raised a devout Methodist. After Wellesley, she earned an MFA from Boston University, where her thesis was on Art as Propaganda in Nazi Germany. She now lives in Evanston, Illinois, but she also considers Boston &#8220;home.&#8221; Welcome, Linda!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you may already know Linda Hoffman Kimball from her work as a columnist at beliefnet.com and for Exponent II. Or from her novels (Home to Roost and The Marketing of Sister B). Or perhaps from the essay collection she edited, Saints Well-Seasoned: Musings on How Food Nourishes Us &#8212; Body, Heart and Soul. Her latest work is Chocolate Chips &#038; Charity: Visiting Teaching in the Real World, which has already cracked Cedar Fort&#8217;s Bestseller List even though it just came out in January. I first met Linda in the Hyde Park Ward on the South Side of Chicago, where she, her husband (Chris) and three children were the backbone of a very transient ward. Like me Linda was baptized into the Church during college (Wellesley College), having been raised a devout Methodist. After Wellesley, she earned an MFA from Boston University, where her thesis was on Art as Propaganda in Nazi Germany. She now lives in Evanston, Illinois, but she also considers Boston &#8220;home.&#8221; Welcome, Linda!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}