{"id":4361,"date":"2013-06-26T15:33:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T22:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2013-06-26T15:33:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T22:33:40","slug":"red-letter-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2013\/06\/26\/red-letter-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-letter tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot of push-back against the first Amharic bible translations. Why? No red ink! This had been a really key feature of the text for centuries &#8211; one that had been around so long in Abyssinia that to see a copy without it made the reader say, &#8220;What the heck is this? This can&#8217;t be scripture. How come God&#8217;s name isn&#8217;t highlighted?&#8221; A reasonable question if that is what you&#8217;d only ever seen. Feedback to the printing press operators was likely met with much groaning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/geez-scripture.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4362 lazyload\" alt=\"geez-scripture\" data-src=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/geez-scripture.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/450;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot of push-back against the first Amharic bible translations. Why? No red ink! This had been a really key feature of the text for centuries &#8211; one that had been around so long in Abyssinia that to see a copy without it made the reader say, &#8220;What the heck is this? This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2013\/06\/26\/red-letter-tradition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red-letter tradition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}