{"id":32536,"date":"2016-04-09T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T15:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=32536"},"modified":"2016-04-09T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T15:47:24","slug":"remembrance-and-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/04\/remembrance-and-the-past.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Remembrance and the Past&#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_32537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32537\" style=\"width: 469px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/Nauvoo_Temple_daguerreotype.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32537\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32537\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/04\/Nauvoo_Temple_daguerreotype.jpg\" alt=\"The first temple at Nauvoo\" width=\"469\" height=\"599\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original temple at Nauvoo, Illinois, in roughly 1847, three years after the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith by an anti-Mormon mob and shortly before it was destroyed by arson. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is said that, back\u00a0in the glory days of the former FARMS, under my reign of terror there before the 2012\u00a0Purification, our periodicals and books\u00a0\u2014 particularly what was then called the \u201c<em>FARMS Review<\/em>\u201d \u2014 were essentially long strings of pseudoscholarly\u00a0<em>ad hominems<\/em>, slanders, and personal insults linked together by occasional periods and commas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This article, which considers the question of how Latter-day Saints should view their own past, is a typically vicious product of that mercifully bygone era:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publications.mi.byu.edu\/fullscreen\/?pub=1463&amp;index=6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/publications.mi.byu.edu\/fullscreen\/?pub=1463&amp;index=6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 It is said that, back\u00a0in the glory days of the former FARMS, under my reign of terror there before the 2012\u00a0Purification, our periodicals and books\u00a0\u2014 particularly what was then called the \u201cFARMS Review\u201d \u2014 were essentially long strings of pseudoscholarly\u00a0ad hominems, slanders, and personal insults linked together by occasional periods and commas. \u00a0 [&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-32536","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;Remembrance and the Past&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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