{"id":855,"date":"2004-05-31T18:45:59","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T00:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=855"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"moroni-over-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/05\/moroni-over-modernism\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroni over Modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/archives\/ManhattanTempleRendering.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/archives\/ManhattanTempleRendering.html','popup','width=860,height=600,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/archives\/ManhattanTempleRendering.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/ align=\"right\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This may be old news to Manhattanites, but I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/newsroom\/showrelease\/0,15503,3881-1-19489,00.html\">the Church has recently announced <\/a>that the temple there will be getting a steeple and Moroni.  I have somewhat mixed feelings about this.  Certainly the changes will help with &#8220;branding&#8221; (for lack of a better word).  But I always liked the building&#8217;s fairly pure modernist bent, which blends in well with the surrounding neighborhood (especially Lincoln Center), and has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meridianmagazine.com\/arts\/010502arch.html\">become somewhat rare<\/a> in Mormondom.  Moroni comes, I think, with no small aesthetic cost, but perhaps one worth paying.  For more on Mormon architecture and aesthetics, <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/archives\/000335.html\">see this thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be old news to Manhattanites, but I see that the Church has recently announced that the temple there will be getting a steeple and Moroni. I have somewhat mixed feelings about this. Certainly the changes will help with &#8220;branding&#8221; (for lack of a better word). But I always liked the building&#8217;s fairly pure modernist bent, which blends in well with the surrounding neighborhood (especially Lincoln Center), and has become somewhat rare in Mormondom. Moroni comes, I think, with no small aesthetic cost, but perhaps one worth paying. For more on Mormon architecture and aesthetics, see this thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}