{"id":1007,"date":"2020-10-12T02:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T02:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2020-10-13T02:25:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T02:25:23","slug":"anger-is-a-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/anger-is-a-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger is a Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Savior\u2019s teaching not to \u201ccontend with anger\u201d is a good first step. The devil is the father of contention, and it is he who tempts men to contend with anger. He promotes enmity and hateful relationships among individuals and within groups. President Thomas\u00a0S. Monson taught that anger is \u201cSatan\u2019s tool,\u201d for \u201cto be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can <em>make<\/em> us angry. It is our choice.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/#note5\"><sup>5<\/sup><\/a> Anger is the way to division and enmity. We move toward loving our adversaries when we avoid anger and hostility toward those with whom we disagree. It also helps if we are even willing to learn from them. \u2013 <em>Dallin H. Oaks, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2020\/10\/17oaks?lang=eng\">Love Your Enemies<\/a>,\u201d Ensign (CR) November 2020<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Savior\u2019s teaching not to \u201ccontend with anger\u201d is a good first step. The devil is the father of contention, and it is he who tempts men to contend with anger. He promotes enmity and hateful relationships among individuals and within groups. President Thomas\u00a0S. Monson taught that anger is \u201cSatan\u2019s tool,\u201d for \u201cto be angry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[414,413],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-adversaries","tag-anger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}