{"id":31998,"date":"2026-03-04T09:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=31998"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:11:51","slug":"our-silent-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/our-silent-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Our silent piano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010812-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010812-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31999\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010812-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010812-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010812-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010812-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010812-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serve a mission! Anyone who wants a blessed and happy future should consider it. The Lord knows and understands even better than you what you sacrifice and you are compensated for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elder Mark Ross, February 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010814-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010814-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32002\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010814-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010814-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010814-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010814-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1000010814-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our temporarily silent piano means that pianos throughout the world have been played by our sons. Our silent piano stands in contrast to their missionary voices sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with others. What a privilege to have a silent piano for a few years while a child serves a mission!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serve a mission! Anyone who wants a blessed and happy future should consider it. The Lord knows and understands even better than you what you sacrifice and you are compensated for it. Elder Mark Ross, February 2026 Our temporarily silent piano means that pianos throughout the world have been played by our sons. Our silent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/our-silent-piano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our silent piano<\/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":[8,36,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-jesus-christ","category-missionary","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31998","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=31998"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32012,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31998\/revisions\/32012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}