{"id":2824,"date":"2011-03-14T00:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T07:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/03\/usa-today-james-frey-pens-modern-day-holy-bible\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:19:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:19:36","slug":"usa-today-james-frey-pens-modern-day-holy-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/14\/usa-today-james-frey-pens-modern-day-holy-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: &#8220;James Frey pens modern day &#8216;Holy Bible'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/entertainment\/post\/2011\/03\/james-frey-pens-modern-day-holy-bible-\/1\" target=\"_blank\">from USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>James Frey pens modern day &#8216;Holy Bible&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 14px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/topics\/reporter\/Ann+Oldenburg\" class=\"linkedBylineName\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #00529b\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Oldenburg<\/a>, USA TODAY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Final-Testament-Holy-Bible\/dp\/1935263269\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1300125211&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"By Gregory Crewdson\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.usatoday.net\/communitymanager\/_photos\/lifeline-live\/2011\/03\/14\/freyx-inset-community.jpg\" alt=\"By Gregory Crewdson\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"230\" height=\"382\" style=\"margin-right: 15px\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Just in: James Frey, controversial author of\u00a0<em style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: normal\">A Million Little Pieces<\/em>, has penned a new work,\u00a0<em style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: normal\">The Final Testament of the Holy Bible<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Gagosian Gallery has announced the book will have have a limited U.S. print run of 10,000 slipcased leatherette copies, as well as 1,000 collector&#8217;s editions signed and numbered by the author. The book will be released on Good Friday, April 22.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publishers<em style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: normal\">, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible<\/em>\u00a0is &#8220;the story of Ben Zion Avrohom, also known as Ben Jones, also known as the Messiah, also known as the Lord God. Though he is the Messiah, Ben is not the man to whom Christians have prayed for the past two thousand years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frey said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/dec\/16\/james-frey-bible\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #00529b\">in a 2008 interview<\/a>\u00a0the book is his &#8220;idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the streets of New York today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/entertainment\/post\/2011\/03\/james-frey-pens-modern-day-holy-bible-\/1\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at USA Today<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from USA Today James Frey pens modern day &#8216;Holy Bible&#8217; By\u00a0Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY Just in: James Frey, controversial author of\u00a0A Million Little Pieces, has penned a new work,\u00a0The Final Testament of the Holy Bible. Gagosian Gallery has announced the book will have have a limited U.S. print run of 10,000 slipcased leatherette copies, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}