{"id":18195,"date":"2011-12-22T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=18195"},"modified":"2011-12-22T10:47:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T15:47:05","slug":"an-argument-for-huntsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/an-argument-for-huntsman\/","title":{"rendered":"An Argument for Huntsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/00-jon-huntsman-jr-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18213\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"00-jon-huntsman-jr-1\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/00-jon-huntsman-jr-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a>With the impending vote, most Mormons may assume that Mitt Romney is the clear favorite. He has been the most consistent front runner for the Republican nomination for President this year, and his views may be most consistent with those of most Mormons. So why vote for Jon Huntsman, Jr.\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u2026 for <em>Mormon of the Year<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>I think that the reason Jon Huntsman should be considered <em>Mormon of the Year<\/em> is his role in what has been called the &#8220;Mormon Moment.&#8221; We&#8217;ve seen Romney before. Alone, while Romney did garner a lot of attention when he ran in 2008, he didn&#8217;t gain as much attention as the combination of Romney and Huntsman does this time. Along with <em>The Book of Mormon<\/em> musical, Huntsman has simply added enough national attention to make the moment more than what we say in 2008. Simply put, without Huntsman, we might be seeing the same thing we saw in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>There are, of course, other attractions to Huntsman. His style is certainly more hip than Romney&#8217;s. His daughters have given him unique attention among the presidential candidates, with their tweets and social media exploits. And his more centrist positions make him much more palatable for the general election.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if that is enough to consider Huntsman the <em>Mormon of the Year<\/em>, but I think it is a good argument. Without Huntsman, would we have had as big a &#8220;Mormon Moment?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the impending vote, most Mormons may assume that Mitt Romney is the clear favorite. He has been the most consistent front runner for the Republican nomination for President this year, and his views may be most consistent with those of most Mormons. So why vote for Jon Huntsman, Jr.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":18213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mormon-of-the-year-features","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/00-jon-huntsman-jr-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195","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\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18195"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18217,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195\/revisions\/18217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}