{"id":29000,"date":"2011-10-28T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/to_be_young_hip_and_mormon\/"},"modified":"2011-10-28T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:00:44","slug":"to_be_young_hip_and_mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29000","title":{"rendered":"To Be Young, Hip and Mormon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the popular image of Mormon style has been shaped by clean-cut young missionaries on bicycles in dark suits, white shirts and skinny black ties \u201d\u201d and more recently by the sculptured coif of the presidential candidate Mitt Romney or the sporty style of the motocross-bike-riding Jon Huntsman, another Republican presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>But the boundaries of Mormon style are expanding. The highly visible \u201cI\u2019m a Mormon\u201d\u009d ad campaign (the subject of a major push on television, billboards, the subway and the Internet) seeks to quash strait-laced stereotypes by showing off a cool, diverse set of Mormons, including, besides Mr. [Brandon] Flowers, a leather-clad Harley aficionado, knit-cap-wearing professional skateboarder and an R &#038; B singer with a shaved head.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/27\/fashion\/young-mormons-find-ways-to-be-hip.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the popular image of Mormon style has been shaped by clean-cut young missionaries on bicycles in dark suits, white shirts and skinny black ties \u201d\u201d and more recently by the sculptured coif of the presidential candidate Mitt Romney<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29000\">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":[39,40,42,149,428,155,593,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-economy","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-personal-finance","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29000","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=29000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}