{"id":12781,"date":"2010-06-21T21:54:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=12781"},"modified":"2010-06-21T21:54:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T02:54:13","slug":"new-mormon-blog-at-beliefnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/new-mormon-blog-at-beliefnet\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mormon Blog at Beliefnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jana Reiss, former <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/author\/jana-riess\/\">T&#038;S guest blogger<\/a> and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0764571958\/davesmormonin-20\">Mormonism for Dummies<\/a>, is running a new Mormon blog at Beliefnet: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flunkingsainthood\/\">Flunking Sainthood<\/a>. Put a link in your blogroll (do people still do blogrolls?) and visit often.<\/p>\n<p>Having myself previously hosted a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mormoninquiry\/\">Mormon blog at Beliefnet<\/a>, I have some idea of the challenge the new blog is facing. The problem can be put very simply: (1) few people who aren&#8217;t Mormon have much to say about Mormonism, and (2) there aren&#8217;t too many Mormons hanging around the Beliefnet site.<\/p>\n<p>But it just seems wrong that one of the most popular Internet religion sites doesn&#8217;t host a Mormon blog (they host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Blogs\/index.aspx\">just about everything else<\/a>), so I&#8217;m happy Jana is taking on this project. I hope she is the surprise hit of the year at Beliefnet. As the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0787969222\/davesmormonin-20\">What Would Buffy Do: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide<\/a>, I&#8217;m sure she has a few tricks up her sleeve. You can help by visiting FS on a regular basis and leaving friendly and informative comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jana Reiss, former T&#038;S guest blogger and author of Mormonism for Dummies, is running a new Mormon blog at Beliefnet: Flunking Sainthood. Put a link in your blogroll (do people still do blogrolls?) and visit often. Having myself previously hosted a Mormon blog at Beliefnet, I have some idea of the challenge the new blog is facing. The problem can be put very simply: (1) few people who aren&#8217;t Mormon have much to say about Mormonism, and (2) there aren&#8217;t too many Mormons hanging around the Beliefnet site. But it just seems wrong that one of the most popular Internet religion sites doesn&#8217;t host a Mormon blog (they host just about everything else), so I&#8217;m happy Jana is taking on this project. I hope she is the surprise hit of the year at Beliefnet. As the author of What Would Buffy Do: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide, I&#8217;m sure she has a few tricks up her sleeve. You can help by visiting FS on a regular basis and leaving friendly and informative comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggernacle"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12785,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions\/12785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}