{"id":19173,"date":"2010-04-14T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T15:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-after_years_in_the_shadows_mormon_name_is_back\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T15:20:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T15:20:54","slug":"rns-after_years_in_the_shadows_mormon_name_is_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19173","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;After Years in the Shadows, `Mormon&#39; Name is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a decade long moratorium, Mormon is back. The name, that is.<\/p>\n<p>It was on display everywhere last weekend (April 3-4) as thousands gathered here for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints&#8217; 180th Annual General Conference in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>Where LDS leaders once were pushing members to call themselves Latter-day Saints, rather than Mormons, now the church-owned Deseret News has created the Mormon Times. &#8220;Mormon Messages&#8221; is on YouTube. The &#8220;Mormon Channel&#8221; is on the radio. And the faith&#8217;s missionary Web site is mormon.org.<\/p>\n<p>So what has changed for the nearly 14 million-member church? The Internet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2010\/04\/momon-name-is-back.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a decade long moratorium, Mormon is back. The name, that is. It was on display everywhere last weekend (April 3-4) as thousands gathered here for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints&#8217; 180th Annual General Conference in Salt<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19173\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,94,428,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-blogging-the-internet","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}