{"id":4330,"date":"2008-01-02T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2009-01-07T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T21:31:05","slug":"an-al-smith-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/01\/an-al-smith-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"An Al Smith Moment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my argument:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let us suppose that Mitt Romney does not become the next president. What will this mean for the Mormons? There about 5.7 million Latter-day Saints in America, which in a nation of more than 300 million makes us demographic chicken feed, but the question is important for what it reveals about the presidency and its relationship to American citizenship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the rest of the argument <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/01\/02\/EDO7U7M03.DTL\">here<\/a>.  What do you think?  Too grim?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The <i>Salt Lake Tribune<\/i> ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/opinion\/ci_7890853\">a shorter version of the article in today&#8217;s (1\/6\/2008) edition.  FYI.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my argument: Let us suppose that Mitt Romney does not become the next president. What will this mean for the Mormons? There about 5.7 million Latter-day Saints in America, which in a nation of more than 300 million makes us demographic chicken feed, but the question is important for what it reveals about the presidency and its relationship to American citizenship. You can read the rest of the argument here. What do you think? Too grim? UPDATE: The Salt Lake Tribune ran a shorter version of the article in today&#8217;s (1\/6\/2008) edition. FYI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-4330","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\/4330","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5210,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}