<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8648134927243294939</id><updated>2011-04-21T19:14:28.513-07:00</updated><category term='background'/><category term='Why blog'/><title type='text'>Kent Thoughts</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lds1man.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8648134927243294939/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lds1man.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>R. Kent Francis</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16492572544214025676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_uni9jdzrYdk/SGAFyfOVLVI/AAAAAAAAAAM/AbKK758ucec/S220/Kent_2006.bmp'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8648134927243294939.post-3778745147594057000</id><published>2008-06-23T13:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T13:18:00.132-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Why blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='background'/><title type='text'>Why I decided to blog</title><content type='html'>I have belonged to various Mormon lists for over 10 years - always putting in my 2 cents worth on any given topic that I felt strongly about...  This week I decided I had enough of struggling with the same 8 negative posters who felt it their mission to run down anything I had to say.  I decided I would try to organize my thoughts on topics of my interest and drop them into cyberspace for all to read.  Perhaps this will be a more spiritually satisfying experience.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8648134927243294939-3778745147594057000?l=lds1man.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8648134927243294939/posts/default/3778745147594057000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8648134927243294939/posts/default/3778745147594057000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lds1man.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-i-decided-to-blog.html' title='Why I decided to blog'/><author><name>R. Kent Francis</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16492572544214025676</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_uni9jdzrYdk/SGAFyfOVLVI/AAAAAAAAAAM/AbKK758ucec/S220/Kent_2006.bmp'/></author></entry></feed>
