{"id":5953,"date":"2014-09-30T19:21:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T23:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2016-10-12T11:30:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:30:52","slug":"lamb-the-gospel-according-to-biff-christs-childhood-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/lamb-the-gospel-according-to-biff-christs-childhood-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;It&#8217;s wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ&#8217;s Childhood Pal <\/strong>by Christopher Moore, published in 2002<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been decided that it&#8217;s time for Biff to tell his story &#8212; he was a friend of Jesus when they were kids. Jesus and Biff head out on a years-long journey to find the three wise men and learn from them. It turns out Biff is the person who invented sarcasm. You get a fairly realistic picture of what life was like 2000 years ago, and you also get some outrageous humour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;It&#8217;s wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.&#8221; Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ&#8217;s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore, published in 2002 It&#8217;s been decided that it&#8217;s time for Biff to tell his story &#8212; he was a friend of Jesus when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,36,28,5],"class_list":["post-5953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fiction","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9610,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions\/9610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}