{"id":2499,"date":"2008-10-22T05:44:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T05:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2008-10-20T21:49:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T21:49:15","slug":"the-greatest-stories-never-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/10\/22\/the-greatest-stories-never-told\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Stories Never Told"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2500\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/the-greatest-story-nea67d7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2500\" title=\"the-greatest-story-never\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/the-greatest-story-nea67d7.jpg\" alt=\"The Greatest Stories Never Told\" width=\"250\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Greatest Stories Never Told<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By <strong>Tony Husband<\/strong> (Corgi)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-0- 552133-40-1<\/p>\n<p>What is it about the Judaeo-Christian religion that positively invites us to laugh along with it? When I was a wee lad at the convent, there used to be a periodical pamphlet called the <em><strong>Crusade Messenger<\/strong><\/em> that the nuns would sell to us kids. There may have been uplifting fables and wholesome tracts in them, but all the children ever read were the copious jokes and gag pages. But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>Accepting that &#8211; for the moment \u00e2\u20ac\u201c there&#8217;s loads in the Bible that we can laugh at, who better than the prolific and award-winning cartoonist Tony Husband (of <em>The Reduced\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/em> series of books and a jazillion other gag-tomes) to bring them to our attention in a smart, cheeky but never disrespectful and certainly not blasphemous manner, Hem Hem.<\/p>\n<p>Ranging from dry and laconic to just plain silly these doodles will carry you back to Sunday School and happy hours spent whittling your name into somebody&#8217;s else desk and stifling the urge to say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yeah, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to that know-it-all in the cassock\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It&#8217;s no sin to laugh so track down this nifty little chronicle for a spiritually uplifting moment or two.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1988 Tony Husband. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tony Husband (Corgi) ISBN: 978-0- 552133-40-1 What is it about the Judaeo-Christian religion that positively invites us to laugh along with it? When I was a wee lad at the convent, there used to be a periodical pamphlet called the Crusade Messenger that the nuns would sell to us kids. There may have been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/10\/22\/the-greatest-stories-never-told\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Greatest Stories Never Told&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-Ej","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}