{"id":32771,"date":"2012-05-30T15:15:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T15:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_mitt_romneys_nomination_marks_milestone_for_mormon_faith\/"},"modified":"2012-05-30T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T15:15:50","slug":"washington_post_mitt_romneys_nomination_marks_milestone_for_mormon_faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32771","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Mitt Romney\u2019s nomination marks milestone for Mormon faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;whether they want to call attention to it or not, Romney\u2019s achievement is historic. Nearly 200 years after the founding of Mormonism by Joseph Smith, who himself ran for president to call attention to his flock\u2019s persecution, Romney\u2019s nomination signals how far his faith, and the country\u2019s acceptance of it, has come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at it in a historical perspective, it\u2019s absolutely incredible,\u201d\u009d said Richard Lyman Bushman, a leading Mormon scholar and longtime acquaintance of Romney\u2019s. \u201cA century-and-a-half ago, Mormons were detested as a people as well as a religion. They were thought to be primitive and crude. And now to have someone overcome all the lingering prejudice, that\u2019s a milestone.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/mitt-romneys-nomination-marks-milestone-for-mormon-faith\/2012\/05\/29\/gJQAAIRE0U_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;whether they want to call attention to it or not, Romney\u2019s achievement is historic. Nearly 200 years after the founding of Mormonism by Joseph Smith, who himself ran for president to call attention to his flock\u2019s persecution, Romney\u2019s nomination signals<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32771\">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":[39,40,42,133,428,616,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-history","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\/32771","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=32771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}