{"id":16578,"date":"2015-01-03T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=16578"},"modified":"2015-01-03T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T16:30:23","slug":"heavenly-ascents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/heavenly-ascents.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Heavenly Ascents&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16579\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/1024px-St_Andrews_-_St_Salvators_Quad_-_East_and_North_Aisle.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16579\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/1024px-St_Andrews_-_St_Salvators_Quad_-_East_and_North_Aisle-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"On St. Salvator's quad\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where David Larsen earned his doctorate<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, I don\u2019t believe that I\u2019ve ever mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/davidl\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David J. Larsen\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0very interesting blog here. \u00a0So, seeking to remedy that lack, and in the continuing hope of alerting interested readers to excellent Mormon thinking and writing, here it is:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heavenlyascents.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.heavenlyascents.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Curiously, I don\u2019t believe that I\u2019ve ever mentioned David J. 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