{"id":29796,"date":"2016-01-08T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=29796"},"modified":"2016-01-08T09:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:50:37","slug":"look-over-all-the-land-round-about-el-mirador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/01\/look-over-all-the-land-round-about-el-mirador.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8216;Look Over All the Land Round About&#8217;: El Mirador!&#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_29797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29797\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/01\/800px-El_Mirador_5.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29797\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/01\/800px-El_Mirador_5-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Artwork at El Mirador\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At El Mirador<br>(Wikimedia Commons; click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this final entry from his recent trip to archaeological sites in Mesoamerica, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/nealr\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Neal Rappleye<\/a> reports on the magnificent ruins of a large Preclassic Maya city \u2014 El Mirador, in lowland Guatemala\u2019s Pet\u00e9n \u2014 reflecting along the way on the potential significance of some of its features for understanding the Book of Mormon:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioetquoquefide.com\/2016\/01\/look-over-all-land-round-about-el.html#more\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.studioetquoquefide.com\/2016\/01\/look-over-all-land-round-about-el.html#more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy this entry, you\u2019ll probably also enjoy the several previous reports from his trip that precede this one on his blog.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 In this final entry from his recent trip to archaeological sites in Mesoamerica, Neal Rappleye reports on the magnificent ruins of a large Preclassic Maya city \u2014 El Mirador, in lowland Guatemala\u2019s Pet\u00e9n \u2014 reflecting along the way on the potential significance of some of its features for understanding the Book of Mormon: [&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-29796","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;&#039;Look Over All the Land Round About&#039;: El Mirador!&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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