{"id":841,"date":"2004-05-27T15:34:25","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=841"},"modified":"2017-06-21T01:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T06:44:13","slug":"a-mormon-image-joseph-in-the-inew-york-review-of-booksi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/05\/a-mormon-image-joseph-in-the-inew-york-review-of-booksi\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mormon Image: Joseph in the <i>New York Review of Books<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nybrjoseph.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/nybrjoseph.gif\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>For those ever-so-hip, black-turtleneck wearing New Yorkers in our midst, I felt that I would do what I could to relieve any anxiety that you might have about the potential un-hippness of Mormonism.  Hence this image of Joseph Smith, which appeared in no less an oracle of Manhattan sophistication than <i>The New York Review of Books<\/i>.  I have to confess that I am a bit mystified as to the significance of the shovel.  A reference to money digging perhaps?  Digging up the Gold Plates?  Who knows.  Interestingly, Joseph did visit New York City once in his life.  It has been a while since I read the journal entry, but as I recall he thought it was a facinating place, but full of sin and ready for a good smiting by the Almighty.  Not a bad description all in all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those ever-so-hip, black-turtleneck wearing New Yorkers in our midst, I felt that I would do what I could to relieve any anxiety that you might have about the potential un-hippness of Mormonism. Hence this image of Joseph Smith, which appeared in no less an oracle of Manhattan sophistication than The New York Review of Books. I have to confess that I am a bit mystified as to the significance of the shovel. A reference to money digging perhaps? Digging up the Gold Plates? Who knows. Interestingly, Joseph did visit New York City once in his life. It has been a while since I read the journal entry, but as I recall he thought it was a facinating place, but full of sin and ready for a good smiting by the Almighty. Not a bad description all in all.<\/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":[31],"tags":[1405],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","tag-a-mormon-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36778,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/36778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}