{"id":298,"date":"2010-11-02T08:45:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-11-02T08:45:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:45:47","slug":"early-christmas-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/early-christmas-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Christmas Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this because it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianbook.com\/church-dogmatics-14-volumes\/karl-barth\/9781598564426\/pd\/564426?item_code=WW&#038;netp_id=795708&#038;event=ESRCN&#038;view=details\">almost as cheap<\/a> as <cite>Dogmatics in Outline<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/5140073548\/\" title=\"Christmas Comes Early by Accretion Disc, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1048\/5140073548_96ee621462_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Christmas Comes Early\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how much of it I actually read. With advances in medicine, I figure I have at least 40 years, which would be only 16 pages a month: a veritable walk in the park. <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.ptsem.edu\/Content.aspx?id=1908&#038;menu_id=72\">Darrell Guder<\/a> says this is the older translation, which he thinks is the better one. He also says the secret to reading Barth (first discovered by Leslie Newbigen) is to start at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this because it was almost as cheap as Dogmatics in Outline. We&#8217;ll see how much of it I actually read. With advances in medicine, I figure I have at least 40 years, which would be only 16 pages a month: a veritable walk in the park. Darrell Guder says this is the older &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/early-christmas-present\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[86,423,103,116,189,673],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-barth","tag-books","tag-church-dogmatics","tag-darrell-guder","tag-leslie-newbigen","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}