{"id":8851,"date":"2014-07-21T22:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T03:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=8851"},"modified":"2014-07-21T22:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T03:02:32","slug":"temple-at-the-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=8851","title":{"rendered":"Temple at the Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Idaho Falls Temple on River by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/14526697790\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3846\/14526697790_e627386db4_z.jpg\" alt=\"Idaho Falls Temple on River\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Situated on a pretty spot on the Snake River in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Idaho Falls, Idaho\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=43.4916666667,-112.0325&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=43.4916666667,-112.0325 (Idaho%20Falls%2C%20Idaho)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Idaho Falls, Idaho<\/a> is the Mormon Church&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/church\/temples\/idaho-falls-idaho?lang=eng\" target=\"_blank\">Idaho Falls Temple<\/a>. Next to the Falls it may be the most noticeable feature of the city. It is almost pure white and has a gold statue on top.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Idaho Falls Temple HDR by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/14526699600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2898\/14526699600_68a426a8da_z.jpg\" alt=\"Idaho Falls Temple HDR\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Groundbreaking started in 1939 and the Temple dedicated in 1945 and is still in use. It is not open to non-members but they do have a visitor center on the grounds open to everyone. I don&#8217;t think they mind visitors checking out the beautiful flowers on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Idaho Falls Temple Moroni by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/14733239203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3862\/14733239203_0dd50d45e5_z.jpg\" alt=\"Idaho Falls Temple Moroni\" width=\"416\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting feature of most, not all LDS Temples, is the Angel Moroni. Interestingly enough the suggestion to add the statue to Mormon temples came from a non-Mormon sculptor, Cyrus Dallin. Almost everything you ever wanted to know about the Angel Moroni is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/top\/2075\/0\/20-little-known-facts-about-the-Mormon-Angel-Moroni-statue-.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. He almost always faces east. I was too lazy to walk around the temple to get a picture of the front of the statue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Situated on a pretty spot on the Snake River in Idaho Falls, Idaho is the Mormon Church&#8217;s Idaho Falls Temple. Next to the Falls it may be the most noticeable feature of the city. It is almost pure white and has a gold statue on top. Groundbreaking started in 1939 and the Temple dedicated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[1319,1366,794],"class_list":["post-8851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churches","tag-churches","tag-idaho","tag-idaho-falls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8852,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions\/8852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}