{"id":40043,"date":"2017-02-22T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=40043"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:43:43","slug":"evidence-last-many-aspects-john-lloyd-stephens-work-strengthened-mormons-1840s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/02\/evidence-last-many-aspects-john-lloyd-stephens-work-strengthened-mormons-1840s.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Evidence At Last: The Many Aspects of John Lloyd Stephens&#8217; Work That Strengthened Mormons in the 1840s&#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_40044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40044\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/02\/SillaCatherwood.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40044\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40044\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/02\/SillaCatherwood.jpg\" alt=\"Stephens and Catherwood 1841 illustration\" width=\"597\" height=\"503\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An engraving by Frederick Catherwood from John Lloyd Stephens\u2019s \u201cIncidents of Travel in Central, America, Chiapas, and Yucatan\u201d (1841); \u00a0Wikimedia Commons public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormoninterpreter.com\/author\/jeffl\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeff Lindsay<\/a> could be cloned, the world would be an even <em>better<\/em> place:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mormanity.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/evidence-at-last-many-aspects-of-john.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/mormanity.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/evidence-at-last-many-aspects-of-john.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How he manages to do it all from distant Shanghai continues to amaze me. \u00a0I can\u2019t even do it while well situated in Utah Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Hilo, Hawaii<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 If Jeff Lindsay could be cloned, the world would be an even better place: \u00a0 http:\/\/mormanity.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/evidence-at-last-many-aspects-of-john.html \u00a0 How he manages to do it all from distant Shanghai continues to amaze me. \u00a0I can\u2019t even do it while well situated in Utah Valley. \u00a0 Posted from Hilo, Hawaii \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-40043","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;Evidence At Last: The Many Aspects of John Lloyd Stephens&#039; 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