{"id":62,"date":"2007-05-01T10:45:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T16:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/01\/pbs-documentary-the-mormons\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T10:45:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T16:45:44","slug":"pbs-documentary-the-mormons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/pbs-documentary-the-mormons\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS Documentary: The Mormons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was very interested by the PBS documentary that aired last night, entitled &#8220;The Mormons&#8221;. I was very impressed with how professional the whole thing was. It was certainly interesting to see the many perspectives on some interesting points of Mormon History. PBS also hosts a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/mormons\/\">companion website to &#8220;The Mormons&#8221;<\/a>, which I found to be a great resource to learn a little more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/mormons\/interviews\/\">those being interviewed<\/a> as well as a very well-done list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/mormons\/faqs\/\">FAQs of Mormonism<\/a>. You can even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/mormons\/view\/\">view part one online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I both noticed that a lot of time was devoted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonwiki.com\/mormonism\/Polygamy\">polygamy<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonwiki.com\/mormonism\/Mountain_Meadows_massacre\">Mountain Meadows Massacre<\/a>, but I think that may have been because they are both topics that are not well understood by the general public. I must admit that I only learned about Mountain Meadows a year ago, and I would certainly say that it is a topic that isn&#8217;t understood by the general population of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormon.org\">Mormon Church<\/a>, either.<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with everything that was presented in the documentary, overall I was extremely impressed. I&#8217;m definitely looking forward to part two tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very interested by the PBS documentary that aired last night, entitled &#8220;The Mormons&#8221;. I was very impressed with how professional the whole thing was. It was certainly interesting to see the many perspectives on some interesting points of Mormon History. PBS also hosts a companion website to &#8220;The Mormons&#8221;, which I found to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mormonism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}