{"id":42895,"date":"2017-06-16T14:41:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T20:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42895"},"modified":"2017-06-16T23:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T05:39:04","slug":"big-book-estimating-total-surface-area-book-mormon-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/big-book-estimating-total-surface-area-book-mormon-plates.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How Big A Book? 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