{"id":48498,"date":"2015-02-21T20:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_thought_for_the_day_bishop_graham_james_on_the_gospels_and_a_sense_of_h\/"},"modified":"2015-02-21T20:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T20:30:45","slug":"bbc_thought_for_the_day_bishop_graham_james_on_the_gospels_and_a_sense_of_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48498","title":{"rendered":"(BBC Thought for the Day) Bishop Graham James on the gospels and a sense of humour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. I\u2019ve been re-reading Peter Ackroyd\u2019s Life of Thomas More recently, prompted to do so by watching Wolf Hall. More\u2019s characterisation in Wolf Hall seemed to drain him of his well attested sense of humour. It puzzled me. Ackroyd has reminded me of More\u2019s wit. Sometimes it\u2019s assumed that no seriously religious person will have a sense of humour at all. \u201d\u02dcWhere are the jokes in the gospels?\u2019 I was once asked.<\/p>\n<p>That Jesus had a sense of humour became evident to me once I began to preach. In the Church of England scripture readings are set for every day. One of the many purposes of what\u2019s called the Lectionary is to stop clergy just using their favourite bits of the Bible&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02kfnvp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. I\u2019ve been re-reading Peter Ackroyd\u2019s Life of Thomas More recently, prompted to do so by watching Wolf Hall. More\u2019s characterisation in Wolf Hall seemed to drain him of his well attested sense of humour. It puzzled me. Ackroyd<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48498\">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":[36,49,74,175,162,389,635,194,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-general-interest","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-christology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-humor-trivia","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48498","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=48498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}