{"id":42710,"date":"2017-06-08T21:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42710"},"modified":"2017-06-08T21:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:44:42","slug":"elite-high-school-quarterback-tanner-mckee-sits-sunday-play-premier-event-citing-lds-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/elite-high-school-quarterback-tanner-mckee-sits-sunday-play-premier-event-citing-lds-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Elite high school quarterback Tanner McKee sits out of Sunday play at premier event, citing LDS faith&#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_42711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42711\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/06\/800px-Patriots-Steelers_2005.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42711\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42711\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/06\/800px-Patriots-Steelers_2005.jpg\" alt=\"A football game\" width=\"597\" height=\"362\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Sunday visitor to the United States from an alien planet might be pardoned for deducing, at certain times of the year, that football is the central ritual of America\u2019s national religion.<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Responses to this issue differ, even among faithful and committed Latter-day Saints:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865681441\/Elite-high-school-quarterback-Tanner-McKee-sits-out-of-Sunday-play-at-premier-event-citing-LDS.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865681441\/Elite-high-school-quarterback-Tanner-McKee-sits-out-of-Sunday-play-at-premier-event-citing-LDS.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What do <em>you<\/em> think?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And, please, no personal criticisms of Tanner McKee and no sneering at his beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Responses to this issue differ, even among faithful and committed Latter-day Saints: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865681441\/Elite-high-school-quarterback-Tanner-McKee-sits-out-of-Sunday-play-at-premier-event-citing-LDS.html \u00a0 What do you think? \u00a0 And, please, no personal criticisms of Tanner McKee and no sneering at his beliefs. \u00a0 Posted from Richmond, Virginia \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-42710","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;Elite high school quarterback Tanner McKee sits out of Sunday play at premier event, citing LDS faith&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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