{"id":16615,"date":"2015-01-04T14:57:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T21:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=16615"},"modified":"2015-01-04T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T21:57:27","slug":"meet-the-100-most-significant-americans-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/meet-the-100-most-significant-americans-of-all-time.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Meet the 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time&#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_16616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16616\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/JS_org_church_st.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16616\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/JS_org_church_st-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"JS on 6 April in Fayette\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Smith organizes the Church in 1830<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My <em>Deutsch-sprechender<\/em> BYU colleague Eric Ringger has kindly drawn my attention to this interesting item:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonianmag\/meet-100-most-significant-americans-all-time-180953341\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;no-ist\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonianmag\/meet-100-most-significant-americans-all-time-180953341\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;no-ist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please notice who the first and third persons on the list of \u201cReligious Figures\u201d are.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u201cHe called me by\u00a0name, and said unto me that he was a\u00a0messenger\u00a0sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do; and that my name should be had for\u00a0good\u00a0and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people.\u201d<\/strong> \u00a0(Joseph Smith \u2014 History 1:33)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 My Deutsch-sprechender BYU colleague Eric Ringger has kindly drawn my attention to this interesting item: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonianmag\/meet-100-most-significant-americans-all-time-180953341\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;no-ist \u00a0 Please notice who the first and third persons on the list of \u201cReligious Figures\u201d are. \u00a0 \u201cHe called me by\u00a0name, and said unto me that he was a\u00a0messenger\u00a0sent from the presence of God to me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Meet the 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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