{"id":42415,"date":"2017-05-28T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42415"},"modified":"2017-05-28T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T16:04:50","slug":"real-book-mormon-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/real-book-mormon-translation.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The REAL Book of Mormon Translation&#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_42416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42416\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Photo-1-Arctic-tourism_Monacobreen_Glacier_Svalbard_Arctic_20276517422.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42416\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42416\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Photo-1-Arctic-tourism_Monacobreen_Glacier_Svalbard_Arctic_20276517422-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Svalbard.  In Toronto?\" width=\"596\" height=\"397\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a blistering hot summer day, students cross the quad at the University of Toronto.<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this ten-minute video, you can actually <em>see<\/em> the real Stephen Smoot (online, at least) during his temporary return from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/01\/can-come-home-now-steve-smoot.html?ref_widget=related&amp;ref_blog=danpeterson&amp;ref_post=rich-new-resources-studies-lds-scripture-history\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">exile in Toronto<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripturalmormonism.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/05\/the-real-book-of-mormon-translation.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/scripturalmormonism.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/05\/the-real-book-of-mormon-translation.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I realize that it may seem to many of you that Br\u2019er Smoot is omnipresent. \u00a0However, I assure you that he\u2019s not. \u00a0He really does currently spend several months a year in Canada \u2014 which, for some of my critics out there who may be puzzled by the reference, is an alleged country located to the north of the United States. \u00a0(If you require evidence for this, just get in your car and travel northwards. \u00a0With any luck at all, if you\u2019re persistent and remain on course, you stand a reasonably good chance of eventually encountering Canada for yourself. \u00a0Personally. \u00a0You\u2019ll have no need of depending upon the testimony of anybody else.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 In this ten-minute video, you can actually see the real Stephen Smoot (online, at least) during his temporary return from exile in Toronto: \u00a0 http:\/\/scripturalmormonism.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/05\/the-real-book-of-mormon-translation.html \u00a0 Incidentally, I realize that it may seem to many of you that Br\u2019er Smoot is omnipresent. \u00a0However, I assure you that he\u2019s not. \u00a0He really does currently [&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-42415","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;The REAL Book of Mormon Translation&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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