{"id":6309,"date":"2015-05-28T15:54:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T19:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2015-05-28T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T19:54:19","slug":"bertrand-let-me-design-a-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6309","title":{"rendered":"Bertrand: Let Me Design a Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/starfire2k\/3631902258\" title=\"Gutenberg Bible by NYC Wanderer, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/4\/3603\/3631902258_3fab33242d_n.jpg?resize=320%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" style=\"float:left;margin:12px;\" alt=\"Gutenberg Bible\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bibleexchange.com\/17-questions-with-j-mark-bertrand\/\">The Bible Exchange labels J. Mark Bertrand<\/a> &#8220;the most interesting man in the (Bible) world&#8221; as a way to soften him up before peppering him with questions. What&#8217;s his favorite Bible? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1433544148\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1433544148&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=brandbooks-20&#038;linkId=YV5HCOO5RHORKKJH\">ESV Reader&#8217;s Bible<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=brandbooks-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1433544148\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, though possibly not the edition I&#8217;ve linked to. Is this the Bible he&#8217;d want if he were to be stranded on a dessert-ladened island surrounded by cakes and coffees&#8230; I mean, a desert island with only a shade weed and a view of Nineveh? No. He&#8217;d want &#8220;one that doesn\u2019t yet exist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every so often people will ask me, &#8216;Why don\u2019t you design your own Bible?&#8217; I\u2019d really like to. I\u2019ve gone so far as to create the proposal to see whether any publishers are interested in the project. Meanwhile I am staying away from boats and airplanes for fear of being prematurely stranded.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible Exchange labels J. Mark Bertrand &#8220;the most interesting man in the (Bible) world&#8221; as a way to soften him up before peppering him with questions. What&#8217;s his favorite Bible? The ESV Reader&#8217;s Bible, though possibly not the edition I&#8217;ve linked to. Is this the Bible he&#8217;d want if he were to be stranded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bertrand: Let Me Design a Bible<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,14],"tags":[315,1336],"class_list":["post-6309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-blogs-social-media","category-religion","tag-bible-design","tag-j-mark-bertrand"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}