{"id":1913,"date":"2010-05-30T19:59:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T02:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2010-06-11T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T03:16:07","slug":"not-a-typical-sunday-and-a-picture-for-may-30-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"Not A Typical Sunday &#8230; and a Picture for May 30, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1914\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1914\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1914\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1914\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1914\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSC05191a.jpg?fit=1024%2C619&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,619\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Roland K Smith&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSLR-A100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;It&#039;s quite normal for people to fly flags on Memorial Day. However, flying one upside down is rather rare. An upside down flag generally means someone is in distress. This flag flyer is most likely making a political statement.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1275308463&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. All other rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;280&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A Distress Signal?&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A Distress Signal?\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s quite normal for people to fly flags on Memorial Day. However, flying one upside down is rather rare. An upside down flag generally means someone is in distress. This flag flyer is most likely making a political statement.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A Distress Signal?&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSC05191a.jpg?fit=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSC05191a.jpg?fit=604%2C365&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1914\" title=\"A Distress Signal?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSC05191a.jpg?resize=300%2C181&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Distress Signal?\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSC05191a.jpg?resize=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSC05191a.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSC05191a.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Distress Signal?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today was a fifth Sunday of the month, meaning that my Sunday meetings started at 6:30 a.m. with a Stake Welfare Meeting. I had meetings from then until 2:10 p.m. that afternoon &#8230; and would have had more except Nina and I left town!<\/p>\n<p>I had a High Council speaking assignment in my home ward at 1:00 p.m. My assigned topic was on Priesthood, but I was following a recently returned missionary from the Singapore Mission, so he was able to take as much time as he wished. He left me about ten minutes, so I trimmed my talk down appropriately.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1915\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1915\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1915\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2991.jpg?fit=640%2C538&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,538\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 3G&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1275246360&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2991\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Birthday Boys&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2991.jpg?fit=300%2C252&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2991.jpg?fit=604%2C508&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1915\" title=\"IMG_2991\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2991.jpg?resize=300%2C252&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2991.jpg?resize=300%2C252&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2991.jpg?resize=150%2C126&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2991.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birthday Boys<\/figcaption><\/figure>When the meeting was finished, Nina and I drove over to Soda Springs, picked my mother up, and we drove to Logan, Utah where the twins were going to be ordained Teachers in the Aaronic Priesthood and celebrate their birthdays. LeeAnn&#8217;s parents live in north Logan and that was where the festivities were being held. We had a nice visit with a house full of people. Afterwards we drove back to Soda Springs to drop mother off and came home.<\/p>\n<p>This definitely wasn&#8217;t a typical Sunday, but rather was one of those very special Sundays!<\/p>\n<p>TTFN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a fifth Sunday of the month, meaning that my Sunday meetings started at 6:30 a.m. with a Stake Welfare Meeting. I had meetings from then until 2:10 p.m. that afternoon &#8230; and would have had more except Nina and I left town! I had a High Council speaking assignment in my home ward &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1913\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not A Typical Sunday &#8230; and a Picture for May 30, 2010<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-uR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}