{"id":33542,"date":"2016-05-17T09:43:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=33542"},"modified":"2016-05-17T09:44:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:44:22","slug":"what-paper-and-wood-tell-us-about-the-gold-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/05\/what-paper-and-wood-tell-us-about-the-gold-plates.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What Paper and Wood Tell Us about the Gold Plates&#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_33543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33543\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/susquehanna-river-harmony-pennsylvania-712528-gallery.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33543\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33543\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/susquehanna-river-harmony-pennsylvania-712528-gallery.jpg\" alt=\"The Susquehanna River, in Pennsylvania\" width=\"596\" height=\"397\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Susquehanna River near Harmony, Pennsylvania, where most of the Book of Mormon was translated. \u00a0(Wikimedia CC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet another illustration of how assuming the gold plates to be literally real simply makes better and more natural sense of the story of the recovery of the Book of Mormon than does the assumption that there were no such plates:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mormanity.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/what-paper-and-wood-tell-us-about-gold.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/mormanity.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/what-paper-and-wood-tell-us-about-gold.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Yet another illustration of how assuming the gold plates to be literally real simply makes better and more natural sense of the story of the recovery of the Book of Mormon than does the assumption that there were no such plates: \u00a0 http:\/\/mormanity.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/what-paper-and-wood-tell-us-about-gold.html \u00a0 Posted from Richmond, Virginia \u00a0 \u00a0<\/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-33542","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;What Paper and Wood Tell Us about the Gold Plates&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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