{"id":22318,"date":"2012-09-11T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=22318"},"modified":"2012-09-11T10:45:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T15:45:42","slug":"the-waylaying-of-brandon-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/the-waylaying-of-brandon-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waylaying of Brandon Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being unfairly ambushed on the subject of religion prior to a recent performance on\u00a0the\u00a0Norwegian-Swedish television show Skavlan,\u00a0Brandon Flowers admirably stood up for his faith, shying away from neither the battery of questions on his Mormonism by\u00a0Norwegian journalist\u00a0Fredrik Skavlan and others\u00a0nor the full-on frontal assault\u00a0on Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon and God by surprise guest Richard Dawkins. \u00a0While it was clear Flowers would have rather been talking about his music and his band, he nevertheless responded directly to questions about whether he\u00a0<em>actually<\/em>\u00a0believes the origin story of the Mormon faith and proactively cut into a Dawkins&#8217; screed about the Book of Mormon being a work of &#8220;charlatanry.&#8221; In the face of being waylaid by the sophists, Flowers&#8217; true character shone through. He&#8217;s a credit to Mormons everywhere. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xjwsG36XTZ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being unfairly ambushed on the subject of religion prior to a recent performance on\u00a0the\u00a0Norwegian-Swedish television show Skavlan,\u00a0Brandon Flowers admirably stood up for his faith, shying away from neither the battery of questions on his Mormonism by\u00a0Norwegian journalist\u00a0Fredrik Skavlan and others\u00a0nor the full-on frontal assault\u00a0on Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon and God by surprise guest Richard Dawkins. \u00a0While it was clear Flowers would have rather been talking about his music and his band, he nevertheless responded directly to questions about whether he\u00a0actually\u00a0believes the origin story of the Mormon faith and proactively cut into a Dawkins&#8217; screed about the Book of Mormon being a work of &#8220;charlatanry.&#8221; In the face of being waylaid by the sophists, Flowers&#8217; true character shone through. He&#8217;s a credit to Mormons everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22318","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22318"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22322,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22318\/revisions\/22322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}