{"id":77,"date":"2003-11-24T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-01-20T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:49:35","slug":"prohibition-is-dead-and-the-mormons-killed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2003\/11\/prohibition-is-dead-and-the-mormons-killed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Prohibition is Dead and the Mormons Killed It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That was the headline in a British newspaper when Utah became the state that pushed the repeal of prohibition over the  top.  At the time, President Heber J. Grant was urging the Saints, via the <i>Deseret News<\/i> to keep prohibition in place.  Grant had been a dry clear back into the 1890s, and was horrified that Utah would pound the final nail in the coffin of prohibition.  (For a full discussion of Grant&#8217;s views on prohibition, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/contentdm.lib.byu.edu\/cgi-bin\/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=\/MormonThesesA-B&#038;CISOPTR=12818&#038;CISOSHOW=1704\">this master&#8217;s thesis<\/a> at BYU on his political activities.)  Some seven decades on, it looks as though Mormons (or a Mormon) is once again set to strike a blow for booze.  According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2003\/11\/23\/sunday_liquor_sale_ban_to_end\/\"><i>Boston Globe<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>After a 200-year ban based in Puritan tradition, Massachusetts liquor stores will gain the freedom to remain open seven days a week year-round starting next week, when Governor Mitt Romney plans to sign into law a measure ending the longtime state prohibition on Sunday alcohol sales.<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mormon-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6648,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/6648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}