{"id":1342,"date":"2024-04-22T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2024-04-22T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:08:25","slug":"young-joseph-smith-tells-his-dad-that-he-wants-to-become-god-when-he-grows-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"Young Joseph Smith Tells His dad that He Wants to Become God When He Grows Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Beyond the Satire Note: Could Joseph Smith become God when he grew up even if he wanted to? Do Latter-Day Saints believe that men can become Gods? <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrm.org\/become-a-god\"><em>https:\/\/www.mrm.org\/become-a-god<\/em><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharon Vermont \u2013 It turns out that LDS prophet Joseph Smith never wanted to be a prophet while growing up. Little Joseph Smith had even higher aspirations than big Joseph Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cSo, buddy, what do you want to do with your life?\u201d Joseph Smith Sr. asked his seven-year-old son, Joseph Smith Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWhen I am big, I want to be God when I grow up.\u201d Joseph Smith Jr. told an appalled Joseph Smith Sr. \u201cBeing a firefighter or a teacher is boring. Yuck!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThat\u2019s ahh, really nice, honey.\u201d Lucy Smith said in her most unconvincing mother voice. \u201cBut why don\u2019t you stick to your dream of being an Egyptologist, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At publishing time, Joseph Smith Sr. was wondering whether it was a good idea to deter Joseph Jr. from wanting to be an elephant when he grows up after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the Satire Note: Could Joseph Smith become God when he grew up even if he wanted to? Do Latter-Day Saints believe that men can become Gods? https:\/\/www.mrm.org\/become-a-god Sharon Vermont \u2013 It turns out that LDS prophet Joseph Smith never wanted to be a prophet while growing up. Little Joseph Smith had even higher aspirations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satura-apologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}