{"id":26954,"date":"2011-06-27T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/philadelphia_area_episcopal_churchs_bible_challenge_gives_readers_something\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:01:12","slug":"philadelphia_area_episcopal_churchs_bible_challenge_gives_readers_something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26954","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Area Episcopal church&#39;s &#39;Bible Challenge&#39; gives readers something to talk about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be the best-selling book of all time, but its battles, bloodletting, and &#8220;begats,&#8221; its many laws, rituals, and tribes, and those chewy names like Oholiab and Eliphelehu and &#8220;Joshbekashah son of Heman&#8221; don&#8217;t make for easy reading.<\/p>\n<p>Yet when the rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh invited his congregants in January to join him in reading the Bible cover to cover in a year, the response surprised him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s taken on a life of its own,&#8221; the Rev. Marek Zabriskie said last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/pennsylvania\/124580388.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be the best-selling book of all time, but its battles, bloodletting, and &#8220;begats,&#8221; its many laws, rituals, and tribes, and those chewy names like Oholiab and Eliphelehu and &#8220;Joshbekashah son of Heman&#8221; don&#8217;t make for easy reading. Yet<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26954\">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":[36,48,434,66,184,380,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-adult-education","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-parishes","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26954","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=26954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}