{"id":895,"date":"2008-09-13T07:08:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/09\/13\/the-worlds-biggest-bible-producer\/"},"modified":"2019-10-20T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T22:40:15","slug":"the-worlds-biggest-bible-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/09\/13\/the-worlds-biggest-bible-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"the world&#8217;s biggest Bible producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who would you say that would be?<\/p>\n<p>And how many Bibles would they produce in a year?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It would be the Bible Society of Brazil, at 7.7 million Bibles a year.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/christianpost.com\/article\/20080912\/world-s-biggest-bible-producer-says-sales-down.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news article<\/a> at the Christian Post says the Bible Society of Brazil is reporting a <em>decline<\/em> in sales, possibly related to the new publishing house in <em>China<\/em>, of all places, which is capable of producing 12 million Bibles a year, although it &#8216;only&#8217; produced 6 million last year.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure what all of this means&#8230; &#8220;Figures don&#8217;t lie, but liars can figure,&#8221; my dad says. But two things surprised me about this article: the volume reported for the China printing house and the fact that till now, the largest Bible producer in the world is in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/don-sig28.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would you say that would be? And how many Bibles would they produce in a year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[183],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-er","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/2430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}