{"id":1614,"date":"2003-07-27T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-27T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2021-05-24T00:42:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T04:42:44","slug":"raiders-of-the-fake-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/07\/27\/raiders-of-the-fake-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders of the Fake Box"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/blogathonbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; I knew it. The ancient box that supposedly held the remains of &#8220;James, the Brother of Jesus&#8221; has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/TECH\/science\/07\/24\/jesus.brother.ap\/index.html\">determined to be a forgery<\/a>. I predicted it as soon as I first heard about it &#8212; not because I might believe Jesus was an only child, but because of the ridiculous story around its discovery. The guy said he found it in someone else&#8217;s collection. So why wasn&#8217;t there all this hoopla from the <i>first<\/i> owner? Now the box can join the Shroud of Turin and the mummified remains of Pat Robertson in the PT Barnum collection of religious scams.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Speaking of the Shroud of Turin, I knew that was a fake too, even as a child.  The evidence is right in the Bible (one of which, despite being so often online, I have handy): <i>John<\/i>, 20:7.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I knew it. The ancient box that supposedly held the remains of &#8220;James, the Brother of Jesus&#8221; has been determined to be a forgery. I predicted it as soon as I first heard about it &#8212; not because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/07\/27\/raiders-of-the-fake-box\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogathon","category-links","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}