{"id":35700,"date":"2016-08-07T18:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T00:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=35700"},"modified":"2016-08-07T18:53:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T00:53:29","slug":"celebrating-the-interpreter-foundations-fourth-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/celebrating-the-interpreter-foundations-fourth-birthday.html","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Interpreter Foundation&#8217;s fourth birthday"},"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_35701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35701\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/738px-TabernacleOrgan2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35701\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35701\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/738px-TabernacleOrgan2.jpg\" alt=\"SLC's Tabernacle Organ\" width=\"595\" height=\"484\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tabernacle Organ in Salt Lake City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last night, about seventy-five officers, volunteers, and friends of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Interpreter Foundation<\/a> gathered to celebrate its fourth birthday. \u00a0We had a great meal, thanks especially to Bruce Webster, a long-time participant in our scripture roundtables who has just joined our board and who, it turns out, is an expert smoker of meats. \u00a0A good time was had, I hope, by all.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are some statistics, current as of last night<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>Weeks since founding: 212.5<\/div>\n<div>Consecutive Fridays on\u00a0which at least one journal article has been published: 211<\/div>\n<div>Scripture roundtables posted: 174<\/div>\n<div>Books published: 7<\/div>\n<div>Website pageviews in the last 30 days: 48,000<\/div>\n<div>Website pageviews in the last year: 566,000<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"\">YouTube<\/span>\u00a0views over last 30 days: 5,843<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"\">YouTube<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"\">minutes<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"\">viewed<\/span>\u00a0over last 30 days: 112,000<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"\">YouTube<\/span>\u00a0views over last year: 58,000<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"\">YouTube<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"\">minutes<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"\">viewed<\/span>\u00a0over last year: 1,264,000<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of good conversation, but a major\u00a0highlight, I hope, was the showing\u00a0of a nearly-finished\u00a024-minute film devoted to the life and musical testimony of the late composer and Tabernacle organist <a href=\"http:\/\/Mormon%20Scholars%20Testify%20Robert%20Cundick\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Cundick<\/a>. \u00a0We envision it as the first of a series of movies and derivative works\u00a0that we\u2019re calling <em>Foundation Stones<\/em>. \u00a0We\u2019re scheduled to begin filming on a new project in Kirtland, Ohio, late in September. \u00a0This is a major new initiative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re deeply grateful to all those whose energy, effort, talent, and financial support have made the work of the Interpreter Foundation\u00a0possible. \u00a0And more good things are on their way.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Last night, about seventy-five officers, volunteers, and friends of the Interpreter Foundation gathered to celebrate its fourth birthday. \u00a0We had a great meal, thanks especially to Bruce Webster, a long-time participant in our scripture roundtables who has just joined our board and who, it turns out, is an expert smoker of meats. \u00a0A [&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-35700","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>Celebrating the Interpreter Foundation&#039;s fourth birthday<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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