{"id":1550,"date":"2004-11-03T15:35:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T19:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:39:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:39:06","slug":"the-king-james-bible-has-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/11\/the-king-james-bible-has-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"The King James Bible has competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is  off-topic, but I thought I&#8217;d put in a word for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0393326713\/qid=1099509028\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_csp_1\/104-9990733-6892760?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">9\/11 Commission Report<\/a>.  <!--more-->For only ten bucks, you get a fairly in-depth history of militant Islam, perspective on how previous administrations attempted to deal with the threat, a primer on the history and operation of the FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies, and a definitive and impossibly-detailed account of 9\/11, including the administration&#8217;s reaction.  The only annoying thing about it is how the Commission spreads the blame so broadly and thinly &#8212; though that is probably as it should be.  The Report is eminently readable, engaging, and well-documented.  And how&#8217;s this for a plug: In the most recent <em>New Yorker<\/em>, John Updike says that &#8220;the King James Bible [is] our language&#8217;s lone masterpiece produced by committee, at least until this year&#8217;s 9\/11 Commission Report.&#8221;  I also noticed that it has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/13\/books\/12CND-BOOK.html\">nominated for the National Book Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t spare ten bucks, it is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.9-11commission.gov\/report\/index.htm\"> available for free here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is off-topic, but I thought I&#8217;d put in a word for the 9\/11 Commission Report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5809,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/5809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}