{"id":2908,"date":"2011-04-17T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T06:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/financial-times-freys-masterpiece\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:12:41","slug":"financial-times-freys-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/17\/financial-times-freys-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"FINANCIAL TIMES, SLATE: &#8220;Frey&#8217;s Masterpiece&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/14b3d5f6-66e1-11e0-8d88-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Jsg68QOv\" target=\"_blank\">from the Financial Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>See the light<\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin: 0px\">Review by AN Wilson<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin: 0px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.ft.com\/cms\/af749e86-670e-11e0-8d88-00144feab49a.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"317\" alt=\"A tunnel of light\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1.3em\"><span class=\"bodystrong\">The Final Testament of the Holy Bible<\/span>, by James Frey,\u00a0<em>John Murray, RRP\u00a316.99, 400 pages<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Cult American author James Frey\u2019s new novel is both a work of art and a bombshell hurled at the religious right. It tackles the Second Coming of Jesus in modern America \u2013 with the promised Messiah enacting the deeds the religious right consider most wicked. He is, for example, an active bisexual who supports his prostitute girlfriend when she aborts her first child.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant: every page is great. Whether you are religious, or bigotedly irreligious, or neither, you will find it disturbing in the best possible sense, in the way that Dostoevsky\u2019s \u201cGrand Inquisitor\u201d myth is disturbing.<\/span>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/14b3d5f6-66e1-11e0-8d88-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Jsg68QOv\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full review at FT.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Financial Times See the light Review by AN Wilson The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, by James Frey,\u00a0John Murray, RRP\u00a316.99, 400 pages Cult American author James Frey\u2019s new novel is both a work of art and a bombshell hurled at the religious right. It tackles the Second Coming of Jesus in modern [&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":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","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=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}