{"id":42544,"date":"2017-06-02T23:28:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T05:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42544"},"modified":"2017-06-02T23:28:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T05:28:27","slug":"national-geographic-posts-photo-essay-featuring-mormon-life-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/national-geographic-posts-photo-essay-featuring-mormon-life-italy.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;National Geographic posts photo essay featuring Mormon life in Italy&#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_40819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40819\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/03\/Moroni-with-Roman-Bishops-Perego-Temple.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40819\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40819\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/03\/Moroni-with-Roman-Bishops-Perego-Temple-765x1024.png\" alt=\"Ugo Perego and Moroni\" width=\"597\" height=\"799\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some months ago, my friend Dr. Ugo Perego (second from left) sent me this photo of \u201cthe bishops of Rome\u201d \u2014 he knows that my one ecclesiastical ambition has always been to bear that title, \u201cbishop of Rome,\u201d which he himself currently holds \u2014 posing near the still-under-construction Rome Italy Temple with the statue of the Angel Moroni, which was shortly afterward to be placed on the temple\u2019s highest tower. (I\u2019m guessing, just on a hunch, that not everybody shown in the photograph is actually a bishop.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865681247\/National-Geographic-posts-photo-essay-featuring-Mormon-life-in-Italy.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865681247\/National-Geographic-posts-photo-essay-featuring-Mormon-life-in-Italy.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the actual photo-essay itself:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.it\/wallpaper\/2017\/05\/08\/foto\/mormoni_d_italia-3516237\/1\/#media\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cMormoni d\u2019Italia\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s refreshing and just a bit novel to have a piece like this come out of Europe that isn\u2019t overwhelmingly cynical and sneering about the Saints and their beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865681247\/National-Geographic-posts-photo-essay-featuring-Mormon-life-in-Italy.html \u00a0 Here\u2019s the actual photo-essay itself: \u00a0 \u201cMormoni d\u2019Italia\u201d \u00a0 It\u2019s refreshing and just a bit novel to have a piece like this come out of Europe that isn\u2019t overwhelmingly cynical and sneering about the Saints and their beliefs. \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-42544","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;National Geographic posts photo essay featuring Mormon life in Italy&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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