{"id":22639,"date":"2010-10-31T03:54:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T03:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_times_leader-the_quatercentennial_of_the_authorised_version_should_encou\/"},"modified":"2010-10-31T03:54:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T03:54:56","slug":"a_times_leader-the_quatercentennial_of_the_authorised_version_should_encou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22639","title":{"rendered":"A Times Leader&#8211;The quatercentennial of the Authorised Version should encourage its renewed use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extraordinarily, the King James Bible was written by committee. Its 54 translators were inspired to their task. Using the Bishops\u2019 Bible of 1568 and consulting too William Tyndale\u2019s New Testament of 1525, they fashioned cadences that have saturated English literature from John Bunyan to D. H. Lawrence. The anniversary of their work provides opportunity for historical reflection, but also for restoring it to the nation\u2019s public life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/opinion\/leaders\/article2788078.ece\">Read it all (subscription required)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extraordinarily, the King James Bible was written by committee. Its 54 translators were inspired to their task. Using the Bishops\u2019 Bible of 1568 and consulting too William Tyndale\u2019s New Testament of 1525, they fashioned cadences that have saturated English literature<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22639\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,186,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-church-history","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}