{"id":1874,"date":"2009-12-07T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/translating-the-bible-is-no-joke\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:09:00","slug":"translating-the-bible-is-no-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/translating-the-bible-is-no-joke.html","title":{"rendered":"Translating The Bible Is No Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The Christian Science Monitor contacted me at the end of last week, asking if I could re-write a blog post of mine about the Conservative Bible Project for use as an op-ed piece. 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