{"id":42446,"date":"2017-05-29T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42446"},"modified":"2017-05-29T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T18:45:07","slug":"mounting-evidence-book-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/mounting-evidence-book-mormon.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mounting Evidence for the Book of Mormon&#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_42447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42447\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Cahab%C3%B3n_River_Semuc_Champey_Guatemala.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42447\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42447\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Cahab%C3%B3n_River_Semuc_Champey_Guatemala.jpg\" alt=\"A jungle river in Guatemala\" width=\"596\" height=\"894\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the Guatemalan jungle (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quite frankly, I had forgotten this brief article myself. \u00a0So it\u2019s no wonder if virtually everybody else has. \u00a0But some might be interested in the piece, which appeared in the January 2000 issue of the <em>Ensign<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/ensign\/2000\/01\/mounting-evidence-for-the-book-of-mormon?lang=eng\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.lds.org\/ensign\/2000\/01\/mounting-evidence-for-the-book-of-mormon?lang=eng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Quite frankly, I had forgotten this brief article myself. \u00a0So it\u2019s no wonder if virtually everybody else has. \u00a0But some might be interested in the piece, which appeared in the January 2000 issue of the Ensign: \u00a0 https:\/\/www.lds.org\/ensign\/2000\/01\/mounting-evidence-for-the-book-of-mormon?lang=eng \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-42446","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;Mounting Evidence for the Book of Mormon&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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