{"id":36671,"date":"2016-09-14T00:56:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T06:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=36671"},"modified":"2016-09-14T00:56:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T06:56:02","slug":"the-guam-daily-post-please-pray-for-david-sneddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/09\/the-guam-daily-post-please-pray-for-david-sneddon.html","title":{"rendered":"The Guam Daily Post:  &#8220;Please Pray for David Sneddon&#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_36672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36672\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/09\/seoul-korea-temple-lds-424784-gallery.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36672\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36672\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/09\/seoul-korea-temple-lds-424784-gallery.jpg\" alt=\"Korea's temple\" width=\"560\" height=\"447\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Seoul Korea Temple (LDS.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He gets some details wrong. \u00a0But this is still a remarkable little essay about the case of the young Utah returned missionary who was apparently kidnapped twelve years ago by agents of North Korea \u2014 and about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postguam.com\/forum\/featured_columnists\/please-pray-for-david-sneddon\/article_56680fba-77b8-11e6-8c6b-eb30c1fc88f5.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.postguam.com\/forum\/featured_columnists\/please-pray-for-david-sneddon\/article_56680fba-77b8-11e6-8c6b-eb30c1fc88f5.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written previously about this case, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/09\/utah-mormon-david-sneddon-missing-since-2004-in-n-korea-acting-as-kim-jong-uns-personal-tutor.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/09\/a-prisoner-in-pyongyang.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 He gets some details wrong. \u00a0But this is still a remarkable little essay about the case of the young Utah returned missionary who was apparently kidnapped twelve years ago by agents of North Korea \u2014 and about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.postguam.com\/forum\/featured_columnists\/please-pray-for-david-sneddon\/article_56680fba-77b8-11e6-8c6b-eb30c1fc88f5.html \u00a0 I\u2019ve written previously about this [&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-36671","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>The Guam Daily Post: &quot;Please Pray for David Sneddon&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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