{"id":39245,"date":"2011-03-30T22:48:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T06:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=10644"},"modified":"2011-03-30T22:48:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T06:48:42","slug":"bravo-for-mormons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/30\/bravo-for-mormons\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravo for Mormons!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/31\/us\/31mormon.html?pagewanted=print\">Trying to Relish the Big Time, Even When It Brings a Cringe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The house lights came up and it was intermission at \u201cThe Book of Mormon,\u201d the new Broadway musical about a pair of innocent young Mormon missionaries sent to Uganda to spread the faith. John Dehlin, a graduate student who flew in from Utah to see the show with a group of Mormons from around the country, was still riveted to his theater seat, having flashbacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s way, way too close to home,\u201d he said, recalling his own missionary years in Guatemala: the shock at the poverty and violence, the pressure from the mission president to baptize more natives, the despair when his mission companion ran off with a local girl \u2014 and the Mormon mandate, above all, to repress doubt and remain relentlessly cheery.<\/p>\n<p>A friend in the crowded theater aisle, Paul Jones, passed by and gave Mr. Dehlin a high-five and a hug. \u201cIt\u2019s right on,\u201d said Dr. Jones, a dentist from Gilbert, Ariz., \u201cbut I cringed a little bit, a couple of times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of a Broadway musical that ridicules their religion, produced by the creators of the scathingly satirical television show \u201cSouth Park,\u201d is proving to be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to Relish the Big Time, Even When It Brings a Cringe:<br \/>\nThe house lights came up and it was intermission at \u201cThe Book of Mormon,\u201d the new Broadway musical about a pair of innocent young Mormon missionaries sent to Uganda to spread the faith. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1223,1032,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joseph-smith","category-mormonism","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39245"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39481,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39245\/revisions\/39481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}