{"id":765,"date":"2022-10-24T12:35:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2022-10-24T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:35:26","slug":"joseph-smith-channels-his-inner-jacob-and-challenges-heavenly-father-to-a-wrestling-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Smith Channels His Inner Jacob and Challenges Heavenly Father to a Wrestling Match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Satura Apologia Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carthage Illinois \u2013 LDS prophet Joseph Smith was seen limping into the temple today after a rough night in the ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cJoseph, what happened to your leg?\u201d A concerned Emma Smith asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cRelax my dear. It\u2019s nothing.\u201d A tough sounding Joseph Smith replied. \u201cI wanted to see if I was half the wrestler that Jacob was, and I got Heavenly Father in the ring with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cYou did what now?\u201d Devout Latter Day Saint Brigham Young asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cI duked it out with Heavenly Father all night. Now my backside hurts. Heavenly Father\u2019s got style you know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At publishing time, Smith told Latter Day Saints that wrestling with God was in fact a bad idea. \u201cEven if he is a false God, do not try this at home!\u201d Smith concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satura Apologia Today Carthage Illinois \u2013 LDS prophet Joseph Smith was seen limping into the temple today after a rough night in the ring. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cJoseph, what happened to your leg?\u201d A concerned Emma Smith asked. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cRelax my dear. It\u2019s nothing.\u201d A tough sounding Joseph Smith replied. \u201cI wanted to see if I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","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\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}