{"id":35695,"date":"2012-11-16T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/has_the_mormon_mystique_been_lifted\/"},"modified":"2012-11-16T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:00:30","slug":"has_the_mormon_mystique_been_lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35695","title":{"rendered":"(BBC Magazine) Has the Mormon mystique been lifted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mitt Romney has opened doors. He has made Mormonism much more respectable,&#8221; says Charles Dunn, a professor at Regent University, and author of numerous books on politics and religion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He came out of this campaign as an honourable person, and that bodes well. He is the best missionary Mormons could have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the official name of the Mormon Church) in Salt Lake City, Utah, there appears to be a similar mood of optimism. Although they have not given figures on whether membership numbers are up, enquiries certainly are. Mormons make up about 2% of Americans, but numbers are rising steadily.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20327593\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mitt Romney has opened doors. He has made Mormonism much more respectable,&#8221; says Charles Dunn, a professor at Regent University, and author of numerous books on politics and religion. &#8220;He came out of this campaign as an honourable person, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35695\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,428,155,151,108,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35695","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-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-us-presidential-election-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35695","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=35695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}