{"id":10439,"date":"2014-01-06T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=10439"},"modified":"2014-01-06T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T20:01:23","slug":"from-the-decjan-zephyr-why-i-never-became-an-anti-mormonby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/06\/from-the-decjan-zephyr-why-i-never-became-an-anti-mormonby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"From the DEC\/JAN Zephyr: Why I Never Became an Anti-Mormon\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Utah is not like any other state. Some Americans are still not sure Utah is a part of the union, and in its early history, of course, the U.S. Government\u00a0 refused to allow statehood for the land of Deseret. A \u201cwicked place,\u201d some self-righteous Christians complained.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, there are many Utahns who even today wish they\u2019d stayed out of the USA in the first place. A few years ago, a friend of mine was chatting with a neighbor, a native born Blandingite, about the woes of the world. The man gazed east to the San Juan Mountains in Colorado and noted gravely, \u201cYeah, things are a mess out there in America.\u201d For all these decades and years and centuries, Utahns and the rest of the country have maintained an uncertain truce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/12\/02\/why-i-never-became-an-anti-mormon-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10440\" alt=\"monticello-mormon-temple9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/monticello-mormon-temple9-300x225.jpg\" width=\"357\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/monticello-mormon-temple9-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/monticello-mormon-temple9.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/12\/02\/why-i-never-became-an-anti-mormon-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/12\/02\/why-i-never-became-an-anti-mormon-by-jim-stiles\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: Utah is not like any other state. Some Americans are still not sure Utah is a part of the union, and in its early history, of course, the U.S. Government\u00a0 refused to allow statehood for the land of Deseret. A \u201cwicked place,\u201d some self-righteous Christians complained. Conversely, there are many Utahns who even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10701,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439\/revisions\/10701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}