{"id":1640,"date":"2011-02-19T14:21:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T18:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2013-06-17T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T16:12:39","slug":"the-word-was-his-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Word was his world&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Nicolson, in his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060838736?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0060838736\">God&#8217;s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"feqppbaenvvvbzygxulq\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0060838736\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, describes Puritans this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A puritan ate and drank the word of God. That word was his world.&#8221;\u009d (123)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicolson does not intend this as a compliment, and there were errors of various sorts associated with various ones known as&#8221;Puritan.&#8221;\u009d However, I would be honored to be known as one who ate and drank the Word of God, one whose world was indeed that Word.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, to be worthy of such criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Nicolson, in his book, God&#8217;s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, describes Puritans this way: &#8220;A puritan ate and drank the word of God. That word was his world.&#8221;\u009d (123) Nicolson does not intend this as a compliment, and there were errors of various sorts associated with various ones known as&#8221;Puritan.&#8221;\u009d However, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;The Word was his world&#8221;&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}