{"id":24238,"date":"2023-02-15T23:58:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T05:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=24238"},"modified":"2023-02-16T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:48:25","slug":"richards-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/richards-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For my Christmas gift, Richard secured a ticket to an Itzhak Perlman concert that was supposed to be tonight. There weren&#8217;t two seats available, just one, so he bought the ticket for me. He also insisted on driving me to and from the concert, despite not being able to attend. I filled my pockets with tissues so I could cry as I heard Mr. Perlman play the violin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I didn&#8217;t meet my violin hero tonight; I met a religious hero instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230216_021713262.MP_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"891\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230216_021713262.MP_-1024x891.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230216_021713262.MP_-1024x891.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230216_021713262.MP_-300x261.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230216_021713262.MP_-768x668.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230216_021713262.MP_-1536x1336.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230216_021713262.MP_.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were a few of us who didn&#8217;t get the memo that the concert had been rescheduled, and we congregated at the doors of the music hall in our fine clothes, each showing disbelief in our own way. One of the people was Jean Bingham, former Relief Society General President. Her presence is beautiful and so bright. My interaction with her made me feel that the night wasn&#8217;t a loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20200403-080128.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"859\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20200403-080128.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20200403-080128.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20200403-080128-300x252.png 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20200403-080128-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my favorite image of Sister Bingham during her presidency. It shows her cheering for missionaries who came home during the early days of 2020. She was a light to me during this confusing time, and I took this screenshot to remember the impact she made on my heart and mind. In many instances, she showed she was a worthy hero during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my Christmas gift, Richard secured a ticket to an Itzhak Perlman concert that was supposed to be tonight. There weren&#8217;t two seats available, just one, so he bought the ticket for me. He also insisted on driving me to and from the concert, despite not being able to attend. I filled my pockets with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/richards-gift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surprise!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,40,36,39,20,5,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-byu","category-church","category-hope","category-jesus-christ","category-joy","category-life-according-to-angela","category-marriage","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24238"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24275,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24238\/revisions\/24275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}