{"id":700,"date":"2006-05-29T07:41:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T14:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/05\/29\/golden-platesnot-used-in-translation\/"},"modified":"2006-05-29T07:44:41","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T14:44:41","slug":"golden-plates-not-used-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/05\/29\/golden-plates-not-used-in-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Plates Not Used in Translation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/mormonstories.org\/?p=92\">Mormon Stories podcast<\/a>, historian Grant Palmer made the claim that there are no eyewitness accounts that Joseph Smith ever had the golden plates in front of him while dictating the Book of Mormon to his scribes. 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