{"id":1352,"date":"2011-07-24T19:42:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T23:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yearofsundays\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2011-07-24T19:51:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T23:51:48","slug":"knocking-on-mormons-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yearofsundays\/2011\/07\/knocking-on-mormons-door.html","title":{"rendered":"Knocking on Mormons&#8217; Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yearofsundays\/2011\/07\/knocking-on-mormons-door.html\/elder-mecham\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1359\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1359\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/235\/2011\/07\/Elder-Mecham-450x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You probably know them by their bikes, white shirts, dark ties, lily-white complexions and the fact they show up at your front door at the worst possible time. Today we decided to turn the tables and show up on <em>their<\/em> front porch. Ha!<\/p>\n<p>Mormons, a.k.a. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day [sic] Saints are most widely known for their door-to-door preaching, along with abstinence from alcohol, coffee and smoking. Given those restrictions, how would Amanda and I fare at their service?\u00a0 Come back and find out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know them by their bikes, white shirts, dark ties, lily-white complexions and the fact they show up at your front door at the worst possible time. Today we decided to turn the tables and show up on their front porch. Ha! Mormons, a.k.a. 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