{"id":36118,"date":"2016-08-25T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T17:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=36118"},"modified":"2016-08-25T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T17:15:33","slug":"newsmaxs-fifty-most-influential-mormons-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/newsmaxs-fifty-most-influential-mormons-in-america.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Newsmax&#8217;s Fifty Most Influential Mormons in America&#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_36119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36119\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Ausfahrt_aus_dem_Hafen_von_Bergen._05.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36119\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36119\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Ausfahrt_aus_dem_Hafen_von_Bergen._05-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Bergen, Norway\" width=\"596\" height=\"398\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unrelated but nice view of Bergen (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One can always quibble with such lists \u2014 the most obvious oddity about this one is its failure to include even a single member of the First Presidency or the Council of the Twelve, and one wants to know \u201cInfluential how? Upon whom? Upon what?\u201d \u2014 but they always make for interesting reading:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/TopBestList\/newsmax-list-mormons-influential\/2016\/08\/24\/id\/744898\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/TopBestList\/newsmax-list-mormons-influential\/2016\/08\/24\/id\/744898\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Bergen, Norway<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 One can always quibble with such lists \u2014 the most obvious oddity about this one is its failure to include even a single member of the First Presidency or the Council of the Twelve, and one wants to know \u201cInfluential how? Upon whom? Upon what?\u201d \u2014 but they always make for interesting reading: [&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-36118","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;Newsmax&#039;s Fifty Most Influential Mormons in America&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; One can always quibble with such lists -- the most obvious oddity about this one is its failure to include even a single member of the First\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/newsmaxs-fifty-most-influential-mormons-in-america.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Newsmax&#039;s Fifty Most Influential Mormons in America&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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