{"id":5015,"date":"2011-11-01T23:42:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T22:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2011-11-01T23:42:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T22:42:41","slug":"the-peoples-bible-at-abingdon-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5015","title":{"rendered":"The People&#8217;s Bible at Abingdon Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Revd. David from Abingdon Baptist Church for this Report &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11110105.jpg\" alt=\"The People's Bible\" \/><br \/>\nThis year sees the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. That publication put the Bible into the hands of ordinary people, and the Bible Society have been on a national tour to promote the anniversary and to encourage people to re-engage with the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Called &#8220;the People&#8217;s Bible&#8221;, tens of thousands of people around the country have been copying out a couple of verses of the Bible. Using digital technology their words and their handwriting are uploaded to the internet to produce a unique, handwritten Bible.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11110106.jpg\" alt=\"The People's Bible\" \/><br \/>\nThe tour ends on 16th November when a copy of the People&#8217;s Bible, created by people around the country, will be presented to the queen.<\/p>\n<p>Normally the tour is going to big cities, but the Church in Abingdon was able to bring the People&#8217;s Bible to Abingdon on Market Day, 31st October.<\/p>\n<p>During the day 88 passers-by of all ages wrote out 176 verses from the bible. For most of the day there was a queue at the stall. You can view their contributions and those of thousands of others including celebrities like Jeremy Vine, Aled Jones and Prince Charles, by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepeoplesbible.org\">www.thepeoplesbible.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Revd. David from Abingdon Baptist Church for this Report &#8230; This year sees the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. That publication put the Bible into the hands of ordinary people, and the Bible Society have been on a national tour to promote the anniversary and to encourage people to re-engage with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-place","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","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=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}