{"id":2211,"date":"2005-04-28T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T15:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2005-04-27T18:30:40","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T23:30:40","slug":"the-tumbaga-pla-ates-la-ay-hi-i-dden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/04\/the-tumbaga-pla-ates-la-ay-hi-i-dden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tumbaga Pla-ates La-ay Hi-i-dden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deep in the mountainside . . . <\/p>\n<p>Okay, so the idea that the Golden Plates weren&#8217;t really made of gold, but rather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shields-research.org\/Scriptures\/BoM\/Tumbaga.htm\">out of a lighter alloy called tumbaga <\/a>has now been kicking around for almost 40 years.  To what effect, I wonder.  <\/p>\n<p>Is this a theory which you accept, constant reader?  A theory which you dispute?  One that you cheerfully ignore?  (One that you&#8217;ve never heard of, maybe?)  And are Mormons in general subscribing to the tumbaga theory?  Rejecting it?  Have you ever heard the word &#8220;tumbaga&#8221; used during Sunday School?  (How <em>does<\/em> one pronounce it, anyway?)  Used during Sacrament meeting?  <\/p>\n<p>And most importantly &#8212; Do you own any tumbaga kitsch jewelry?  (Should you?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep in the mountainside . . . Okay, so the idea that the Golden Plates weren&#8217;t really made of gold, but rather out of a lighter alloy called tumbaga has now been kicking around for almost 40 years. To what effect, I wonder. Is this a theory which you accept, constant reader? A theory which you dispute? One that you cheerfully ignore? (One that you&#8217;ve never heard of, maybe?) And are Mormons in general subscribing to the tumbaga theory? Rejecting it? Have you ever heard the word &#8220;tumbaga&#8221; used during Sunday School? (How does one pronounce it, anyway?) Used during Sacrament meeting? And most importantly &#8212; Do you own any tumbaga kitsch jewelry? (Should you?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}