{"id":12841,"date":"2009-08-03T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=12841"},"modified":"2011-08-02T02:05:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:05:59","slug":"quote-of-the-month-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/quote-of-the-month-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Month &#8211; August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepomegranateapple.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/salt-lake-temple.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 322px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 500px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thepomegranateapple.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/salt-lake-temple.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">In honor of my husband and I&#8217;s five year anniversary this month, I am posting a quote from one of my favorite speeches on eternal marriage. If you haven&#8217;t heard it, it&#8217;s a must read.  Find the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/ldsorg\/v\/index.jsp?locale=0&amp;sourceId=25d874536cf0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&amp;vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD\">here<\/a>. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><em>&#8220;If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don\u2019t expose it to the elements. You don\u2019t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.<\/em><a name=\"24\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><em>Eternal marriage is just like that. We need to treat it just that way.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">F. Burton Howard, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/ldsorg\/v\/index.jsp?locale=0&amp;sourceId=25d874536cf0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&amp;vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD\">\u201cEternal Marriage,\u201d Ensign, May 2003, 92<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of my husband and I&#8217;s five year anniversary this month, I am posting a quote from one of my favorite speeches on eternal marriage. If you haven&#8217;t heard it, it&#8217;s a must read. Find the article here. &#8220;If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption-catharsis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}