{"id":4599,"date":"2011-09-22T23:18:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T22:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2011-09-22T23:18:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T22:18:34","slug":"long-distance-bible-reading-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4599","title":{"rendered":"Long Distance Bible Reading in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see in the Abingdon Herald, and now on BBC Local, that as part of Christ Church&#8217;s 50th anniversary celebrations the bible is being read aloud in 4 days. Many people are taking part including our Mayor, MP and Bishop, and lots of people who go to Christ Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Distance Bible Reading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11092003.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis feat has been attempted before in Abingdon. That was back in September 2003, at Trinity Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Distance Bible Reading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11092207.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn that occasion one young lad attempted to read through the bible in 24 hours. <\/p>\n<p>It quickly became apparent that 24 hours would never be long enough. The going got tough as he entered the books of I and II Chronicles &#8211; where there were long lists of people begetting other people with no other narrative. <\/p>\n<p>At that point the audience of young friends started drifting away, and the young reader jumped forward a few pages to something more interesting. He then started taking requests.&nbsp;The highlight turned out to be the Song of Songs with piano accompaniment.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to going down to Christ Church to listen for a bit. I&#8217;m sure there will be no skipping any difficult passages there &#8211; and 4 days sounds more possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see in the Abingdon Herald, and now on BBC Local, that as part of Christ Church&#8217;s 50th anniversary celebrations the bible is being read aloud in 4 days. Many people are taking part including our Mayor, MP and Bishop, and lots of people who go to Christ Church. This feat has been attempted before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}