{"id":9,"date":"2008-05-05T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2011-06-27T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T03:21:15","slug":"strong-drinks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/prohibitions\/strong-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt>What are considered strong drinks?<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Strong drinks [or, in other words, \t\t\talcoholic or harmful beverages] are not for the belly&#8221; (E.T. Benson, <cite>Ensign,<\/cite> May 1983).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>Because of its low alcohol content and because it&#8217;s made with \t\tbarley, would beer be one of the mild drinks in verse 17?<\/dt>\n<dd>Yes, it is likely. The Word of Wisdom was not given as a commandment at first, and many early members of the Church probably drank beer. Currently, however, prophets have considered beer to be against the Word of Wisdom.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stay away from those things proscribed in the Word of Wisdom-no \t\t\talcohol, no beer, no tobacco.&#8221; (Gordon B. Hinckley, regional \t\t\tconference, Montreal, Quebec, 6 Aug. 1998)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>God bless you to grow in faith and to avoid the filthy, \t\t\tterrible sleaze that is all around you, to turn away from it and live \t\t\tabove it, to stay away from beer and anything of that kind which is made \t\t\tso tempting for you.&#8221; (Gordon B. Hinckley, regional conference, \t\t\tSalt Lake Holladay, 8 Feb. 1998)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to \t\t\tyou what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying \t\t\tamounts.&#8221; (Gordon B. Hinckley, General Conference, October 1999)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are considered strong drinks? &#8220;Strong drinks [or, in other words, alcoholic or harmful beverages] are not for the belly&#8221; (E.T. Benson, Ensign, May 1983). Because of its low alcohol content and because it&#8217;s made with barley, would beer be one of the mild drinks in verse 17? Yes, it is likely. The Word of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/prohibitions\/strong-drinks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strong drinks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Bc4t-9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/108"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/wordofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}