{"id":7386,"date":"2003-11-12T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T04:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/11\/12\/keep-on-trucking-jesus\/"},"modified":"2003-11-12T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T04:46:10","slug":"keep-on-trucking-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/11\/keep-on-trucking-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep on Trucking Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/localnews\/stories\/M_IMAGE.f88d5cfcee.93.88.fa.80.45e4536e.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"252\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/localnews\/stories\/M_IMAGE.f88d5cfcee.93.88.fa.80.45e8f2e9.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"299\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Was Jesus Hispanic or Asian or Aryan? Was he married? Did he have shoulder-length sandy blond hair, like Bon Jovi, or did it cascade down his back in funky dreadlocks, like the early Lenny Kravitz? <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Nobody knows for sure, but historians, artists and religious provocateurs have suggested all of the above, and more. At least one painter depicted the Christian savior as a woman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">But you don&#8217;t have to travel to the Guggenheim or the Louvre to see a peculiar artistic rendering of Jesus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Take a drive out to Corinth Presbyterian Church in Parker or First Baptist Church Hebron in Carrollton or First Christian Church in Allen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">There, in stained glass, Jesus has six toes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;The legend is that the artist who made the windows had a six-toed brother,&#8221; said Tom Keener, an amateur historian and the Allen Public Library&#8217;s development coordinator. &#8220;And to honor his brother, who many people considered deformed, he painted six toes on Jesus.&#8221;<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/localnews\/stories\/111303dnmetsixtoedjesus.2ee06.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">The only Biblical figure with six toes was in Gath where a giant with six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot who after taunting Israel was slew by David&#8217;s brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Jesus Hispanic or Asian or Aryan? Was he married? Did he have shoulder-length sandy blond hair, like Bon Jovi, or did it cascade down his back in funky dreadlocks,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}