{"id":21237,"date":"2015-06-14T17:56:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T23:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=21237"},"modified":"2015-06-14T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T23:56:31","slug":"deliverance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/06\/deliverance-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Deliverance Day"},"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_21238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21238\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/06\/120px-Smiley.svg_.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21238\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/06\/120px-Smiley.svg_.png\" alt=\"Yellow smiley face\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everything is beautiful!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago today, the Maxwell Institute, formerly known as FARMS (or the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies), was purged of the mean-spirited pseudo-scholarship that had dominated it for so many years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thus, today is a day for humble gratitude and great rejoicing, a great day in the history of <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormonism<\/a>, a mighty step forward for Mormon scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some appropriate music:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BBZ7AfZR9xs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BBZ7AfZR9xs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some, of course, fail to appreciate the immense good that was done. \u00a0(See, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/enigmaticmirror\/2015\/06\/14\/in-memoriam-3\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/enigmaticmirror\/2015\/06\/14\/no-apology-necessary\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.) \u00a0They are anti-social elements and reactionaries. \u00a0But decent people get it. \u00a0Decent people know.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from San Antonio, Texas<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Three years ago today, the Maxwell Institute, formerly known as FARMS (or the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies), was purged of the mean-spirited pseudo-scholarship that had dominated it for so many years. \u00a0 Thus, today is a day for humble gratitude and great rejoicing, a great day in the history of [&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-21237","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>Deliverance Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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