{"id":26410,"date":"2015-09-14T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=26410"},"modified":"2015-09-14T12:52:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:52:54","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-joseph-smith-translator-extraordinaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/09\/a-day-in-the-life-of-joseph-smith-translator-extraordinaire.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Day in the Life of Joseph Smith, Translator Extraordinaire&#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_26411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26411\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/09\/800px-Noe_schubkarre.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26411\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/09\/800px-Noe_schubkarre-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A really old wheel barrow\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photograph of one of the actual wheel barrows used by David Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery, Sir Francis Bacon, Homer, Luman Walters, Sidney Rigdon, Edward de Vere (the seventeenth Earl of Oxford), and the Illuminati\u00a0for\u00a0conveying needed reference materials to Joseph Smith Jr. during his laborious composition of the Book of Mormon<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<br>Click on the image to enlarge it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I may have shared this comedic masterpiece with you before now, but, if I already have . . . well, it\u2019s so darned <em>funny!<\/em> \u00a0Although it\u2019s much shorter, I think it ranks with Hugh Nibley\u2019s <em>Sounding Brass<\/em> and <em>The Myth Makers<\/em> as a satirical send-up of some of the theories proposed by people who\u2019re desperate to explain Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon away:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jefflindsay.com\/oneday.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.jefflindsay.com\/oneday.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who says that cynical anti-Mormons should have all the laughs? \u00a0Where is <em>that<\/em> written in stone?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I may have shared this comedic masterpiece with you before now, but, if I already have . . . well, it\u2019s so darned funny! 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