{"id":49604,"date":"2015-04-29T19:09:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/abc_thousands_welcome_arrival_of_400-year-old_king_james_bible_in_papua_new\/"},"modified":"2015-04-29T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:09:09","slug":"abc_thousands_welcome_arrival_of_400-year-old_king_james_bible_in_papua_new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49604","title":{"rendered":"[ABC] Thousands welcome arrival of 400-year-old King James Bible in Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Papua New Guinea to mark the arrival of a rare 404-year-old King James Bible donated by an American missionary.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation of PNG politicians and religious leaders escorted the first edition King James Bible from the US state of Indiana to its new home in PNG&#8217;s parliament.<\/p>\n<p>When the large calf-skin bound volume arrived at Jackson airport in Port Moresby, the crowd of approximately 20,000 people cheered and a preacher leading the event yelled &#8220;Hallelujah, let the drums roar&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-04-28\/thousands-greet-bibles-arrival-in-papua-new-guinea\/6428856\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Papua New Guinea to mark the arrival of a rare 404-year-old King James Bible donated by an American missionary. A delegation of PNG politicians and religious leaders escorted the first edition King<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49604\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-missions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49604","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}