{"id":2066,"date":"2014-08-09T16:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T23:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/enigmaticmirror\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2014-08-09T18:24:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T01:24:17","slug":"blair-consults-a-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/enigmaticmirror\/2014\/08\/09\/blair-consults-a-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair consults a Lawyer"},"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>I just received this from Blair Hodges. \u00a0It is beyond bizarre!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">William Hamblin\u2019s recent blog post at Patheos is a libelous misrepresentation of a personal conversation between Dan Peterson and I. It also attacks me on the grounds of my livelihood and employment. I don\u2019t want to involve a lawyer but I will consider it if something is not done to rectify thi<span class=\"s1\">s. I am sending you each direct notice on the counsel of a lawyer to ask you to desist in the defamation and to remove the defamatory material from the blog within the next three days. The offending blog post is here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/enigmaticmirror\/2014\/08\/09\/all-of-you-are-cowards\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/enigmaticmirror\/2014\/08\/09\/all-of-you-are-cowards\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">I have already given public notice that the post is false in the comments at the blog. I have two witnesses who overheard the conversation Hamblin misrepresents and who can also attest to the misrepresentation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">David, if you would like to contact me directly my phone number is xxx-xxx-xxxx.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">-Blair Hodges<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p4\">I\u2019d be happy to modify any part of my blog that is inaccurate. \u00a0So, what precisely is inaccurate?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3f4549;\">Did you demand Dan explain his blog post, or not?<br>\nDid you follow him around, repeatedly making this demand, or not?<br>\nDid you repeatedly call him a coward, or not?<br>\nDid you say \u201cAll of you are cowards,\u201d or not?<\/p>\n<p>Please clarify the specific inaccuracies, and I\u2019ll be happy to change the blog post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">(PS \u00a0If there were two witnesses present, then it was not a \u201cprivate conversation.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received this from Blair Hodges. \u00a0It is beyond bizarre! 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I don\u2019t want to involve a lawyer but I will consider it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,40,57],"tags":[278,39],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints","category-mormon-studies","category-mormonism","tag-blair-hodges","tag-maxwell-institute"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blair consults a Lawyer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I just received this from Blair Hodges. \u00a0It is beyond bizarre! 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