{"id":9965,"date":"2009-10-22T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=9965"},"modified":"2009-10-22T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:51:54","slug":"president-monson-wins-the-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/president-monson-wins-the-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"President Monson wins the prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9970\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9970 \" title=\"President Monson\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/MONSON-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"President Thomas S. Monson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Monson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So Slate keeps track of who it considers the most powerful\u00a0octogenarians and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2232918\/\">President Monson tops the list<\/a>. \u00a0If ever there was a list where Mormons could shine that did not have to do with singing and dancing I guess it makes sense that it would be &#8220;powerful old men&#8221;. \u00a0To loosely paraphrase President Hinckley, isn&#8217;t it wonderful to have somebody in there with decades of experience who is not moved about by every wind of doctrine?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And I thought the correction at the bottom was delightful:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The original version of the gallery of honorees inadvertently showed a photograph of Mormon Apostle Neil Andersen in place of church President Thomas S. Monson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mean who can really tell all those Mormon guys apart anyway?<\/p>\n<p>P.S. if you&#8217;re a somewhat discontented type thinking this is an opportunity to gripe about the church being led by old men, it really really isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Slate keeps track of who it considers the most powerful\u00a0octogenarians and President Monson tops the list. \u00a0If ever there was a list where Mormons could shine that did not have to do with singing and dancing I guess it makes sense that it would be &#8220;powerful old men&#8221;. \u00a0To loosely paraphrase President Hinckley, isn&#8217;t it wonderful to have somebody in there with decades of experience who is not moved about by every wind of doctrine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":9970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mormon-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/MONSON.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9972,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965\/revisions\/9972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}