{"id":7777,"date":"2009-04-16T22:12:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T03:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2009-07-26T18:43:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T23:43:05","slug":"times-seasons-welcomes-rory-swenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/times-seasons-welcomes-rory-swenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Times &#038; Seasons Welcomes Rory Swensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d like to give a warm, hearty welcome to Rory Swensen, who has agreed to guest blog here for a week or two. <!--more-->Rory grew up in Coalville, a small town in Utah east of Salt Lake. He has been a lifelong member of the church and served a foreign-speaking mission to Georgia (the state, not the country), so he is fluent in both American English and Southern Drawl. He&#8217;s served in various callings, but his activity levels seem to fluctuate throughout the year with a surprisingly direct correlation to football season.<\/p>\n<p>He earns a living in the technology sector, but his interests range from history to philosophy to science &#8211; an eclectic mix that enables him to be wrong most of the time, but wrong with style. He also currently serves as the co-chair of the Sunstone Foundation Board of Directors, so his thoughts are hardly representative of Mormon thought.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife Krista, both impenitent Parrotheads, have four children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d like to give a warm, hearty welcome to Rory Swensen, who has agreed to guest blog here for a week or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative","category-guest-bloggers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9050,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions\/9050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}