{"id":1487,"date":"2012-05-15T04:28:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T04:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2012-05-15T04:28:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T04:28:36","slug":"thanks-be-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Be to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expert from &#8220;<a title=\"General Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/general-conference\/2012\/04\/thanks-be-to-god?lang=eng\">Thanks Be to God<\/a>&#8221; by Elder Russell\u00a0M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, Sister Nelson and I enjoyed the beauty of tropical fish in a small private aquarium. Fish with vivid colors and of a variety of shapes and sizes darted back and forth. I asked the attendant nearby, \u201cWho provides food for these beautiful fish?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She responded, \u201cI do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then I asked, \u201cHave they ever thanked you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She replied, \u201cNot yet!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought of some people I know who are just as oblivious to their Creator and their true \u201cbread of life.\u201d They live from day to day without an awareness of God and His goodness unto them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert from &#8220;Thanks Be to God&#8221; by Elder Russell\u00a0M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: Recently, Sister Nelson and I enjoyed the beauty of tropical fish in a small private aquarium. Fish with vivid colors and of a variety of shapes and sizes darted back and forth. I asked the attendant nearby, \u201cWho &#8230; <a title=\"Thanks Be to God\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/?p=1487\" aria-label=\"Read more about Thanks Be to God\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ryans-posts","category-short-inspiring-scriptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}