{"id":32608,"date":"2012-05-21T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/romneys_mormon_faith_silent_but_deep\/"},"modified":"2012-05-21T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:00:06","slug":"romneys_mormon_faith_silent_but_deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32608","title":{"rendered":"Romney\u2019s [Mormon] Faith, Silent but Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Mitt Romney embarked on his first political race in 1994, he also slipped into a humble new role in the Mormon congregation he once led. On Sunday mornings, he stood in the sunlit chapel here teaching Bible classes for adults.<\/p>\n<p>Leading students through stories about Jesus and the Nephite and Lamanite tribes, who Mormons believe once populated the Americas, and tossing out peanut butter cups as rewards, Mr. Romney always returned to the same question: how could students apply the lessons of Mormon scripture in their daily lives?<\/p>\n<p>Now, as the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Mr. Romney speaks so sparingly about his faith \u201d\u201d he and his aides frequently stipulate that he does not impose his beliefs on others \u201d\u201d that its influence on him can be difficult to detect&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/20\/us\/politics\/how-the-mormon-church-shaped-mitt-romney.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mitt Romney embarked on his first political race in 1994, he also slipped into a humble new role in the Mormon congregation he once led. On Sunday mornings, he stood in the sunlit chapel here teaching Bible classes for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32608\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,101,98,428,616,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-marriage-family","category-mormons","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32608","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=32608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}