{"id":41570,"date":"2013-12-16T02:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T02:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pbs_religion_and_ethics_newsweekly-mormon_missionary_expansion\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T02:00:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T02:00:31","slug":"pbs_religion_and_ethics_newsweekly-mormon_missionary_expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41570","title":{"rendered":"PBS &#39; Religion and Ethics Newsweekly&#8211;Mormon Missionary Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKY SEVERSON, correspondent: Off they go, two-by-two, in search of converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\u201d\u201dthe Mormons. You know some of them. Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman was a missionary in Taiwan. Mitt Romney served a mission in France. Since the time of its first modern-day prophet Joseph Smith about 180 years ago, Mormons have sent over a million missionaries throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>STEVEN ALLEN: It is an international church.<\/p>\n<p>SEVERSON: In fact, you have more members outside of the country than inside?<\/p>\n<p>ALLEN: Si.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/12\/13\/december-13-2013-mormon-missionary-expansion\/21372\">Read or watch and listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKY SEVERSON, correspondent: Off they go, two-by-two, in search of converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\u201d\u201dthe Mormons. You know some of them. Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman was a missionary in Taiwan. Mitt Romney served a mission<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41570\">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":[39,42,428,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41570","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=41570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}