{"id":27590,"date":"2015-10-30T10:58:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T16:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=27590"},"modified":"2015-10-30T10:58:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T16:58:47","slug":"why-are-zombies-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/10\/why-are-zombies-everywhere.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why are zombies everywhere?&#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_27591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27591\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/800px-Plan_9_Alternative_poster.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27591\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/800px-Plan_9_Alternative_poster-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Perhaps the worst movie ever made?\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This film is perhaps the most important and informative documentary ever produced about zombies. It makes for excellent viewing during Halloween season, on April First, and, for that matter, at just about any time of the year. Cook up some popcorn, invite the neighbors over, fire up the telly, plop the disk in, and be prepared to learn!<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<br>Click on this image to enlarge it.<br>Click again to enlarge it further.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You were probably expecting this to be a post about certain (typically Evangelical Protestant) critics of <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormonism<\/a>, who keep repeating the same discredited arguments year after year after year. \u00a0(My friend Bill Hamblin and I have joked for a long time about someday doing a film entitled <em>Bill and Dan\u2019s Excellent Adventure in Anti-Mormon Zombie Hell<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But no, it\u2019s a Halloween-related piece by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/taylorh\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Taylor Halverson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865640253\/Why-are-zombies-everywhere.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865640253\/Why-are-zombies-everywhere.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 You were probably expecting this to be a post about certain (typically Evangelical Protestant) critics of Mormonism, who keep repeating the same discredited arguments year after year after year. \u00a0(My friend Bill Hamblin and I have joked for a long time about someday doing a film entitled Bill and Dan\u2019s Excellent Adventure in [&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-27590","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;Why are zombies everywhere?&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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