{"id":898,"date":"2023-01-17T14:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2023-01-17T14:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:24:11","slug":"joseph-smith-suggests-he-lost-the-presidential-election-due-to-interference-from-john-calvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Smith Suggests He Lost the Presidential Election Due to Interference from John Calvin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Satura Apologia Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Beyond the Satire Note: Joseph Smith ran for President in 1844.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The campaign trail \u2013 LDS prophet and failed presidential candidate Joseph Smith rallied dismayed Latter-Day Saints after John Calvin\u2019s election interference caused him to drop out of the 1844 campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would have won so big; Latter-Day Saints would be sick of winning! James K. Polk wouldn\u2019t know what hit him. What a poky loser!\u201d Joseph Smith told dismayed followers. \u201cBut John Calvin stuffed the ballot boxes with tulips! And that is exactly what my reformed Egyptian translation of Romans nine says rigged election is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speculations arose as to Calvin\u2019s motivations. Joseph Fielding Smith suggested that Calvin was a Jesuit agent sent by the Pope to stop Joseph Smith. Brigham Young, on the other hand, alleged that Calvin was secretly in the pay of outgoing President Tyler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satura Apologia Today Beyond the Satire Note: Joseph Smith ran for President in 1844. The campaign trail \u2013 LDS prophet and failed presidential candidate Joseph Smith rallied dismayed Latter-Day Saints after John Calvin\u2019s election interference caused him to drop out of the 1844 campaign. \u201cI would have won so big; Latter-Day Saints would be sick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satura-apologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksolidapologia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}