{"id":41209,"date":"2017-04-10T10:54:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41209"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:54:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:54:28","slug":"utah-mormon-running-president-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/04\/utah-mormon-running-president-kenya.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Utah Mormon running for president of Kenya&#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_41210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41210\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/NBO5.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41210\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41210\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/NBO5.jpg\" alt=\"Nairobi skyline photo\" width=\"597\" height=\"450\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My wife and I have visited Nairobi only once, and that was many, many years ago. But I loved the city, and I loved Kenya. I hope to get back, someday. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many of us hoped, at one point, that Mitt Romney would be the first Mormon head of state in the history of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be fantastic, though, if the first Mormon head of state turned out to be the president of Kenya?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865677450\/Utah-Mormon-running-for-president-of-Kenya.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865677450\/Utah-Mormon-running-for-president-of-Kenya.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Many of us hoped, at one point, that Mitt Romney would be the first Mormon head of state in the history of the world. \u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be fantastic, though, if the first Mormon head of state turned out to be the president of Kenya? \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865677450\/Utah-Mormon-running-for-president-of-Kenya.html \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-41209","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;Utah Mormon running for president of Kenya&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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