{"id":4792,"date":"2008-09-29T11:12:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T15:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2009-01-17T01:44:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:44:36","slug":"my-inner-historian-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/my-inner-historian-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"My inner historian smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The little historian in me cheers for small things, such as correct phrasing. At the General Relief Society Broadcast on Saturday, September 27, Sister Barbara Thompson <!--more-->quoted Joseph Smith as saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I now turn the key to you in the name of God . . .\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rather than the misquoted (for nearly 150 years), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I now turn the key in your behalf . . .\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bravo to Sister Thompson! Bravo to Jill Derr, Janath Cannon, and Maureen Beecher for their meticulous research (that set the record straight) in <em>Women of Covenant<\/em>. It seems that now\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsixteen years post-publication\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe women and men who know the history of the Relief Society, know it correctly. <\/p>\n<p>I understand there might be concerns about people misunderstanding the historically-accurate phrasing, but I say let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work on misunderstandings with explanations rather than inaccuracies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little historian in me cheers for small things, such as correct phrasing. At the General Relief Society Broadcast on Saturday, September 27, Sister Barbara Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}