{"id":1631,"date":"2006-05-20T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2006-05-20T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-20T17:30:09","slug":"holy-sepulcre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/holy-sepulcre\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Sepulcre!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/columnists\/dhenninger\/?id=110008395\">Wall Street Opinion Journal<\/a> Daniel Henninger May 19, 2006<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; shows that conspiracy theories have no limits. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; would not be the subject of this column had it not sold 60.5 million copies, according to its publisher Doubleday. Of course this does not make it the best-selling book of all time. That title, as irony would have it, goes to the Bible, half of which one of Dan Brown&#8217;s characters dismisses as &#8220;false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Like the Bible but unlike Mr. Brown&#8217;s novel, most of the books in the sales Pantheon have had utilitarian staying power&#8211;McGuffey&#8217;s Reader, the Guinness Book of Records, Noah Webster&#8217;s &#8220;The American Spelling Book,&#8221; Dr. Spock&#8217;s baby book and the World Almanac. Now comes &#8220;The Da Vinci Code,&#8221; selling twice as many copies as the 30 million attributed to Jacqueline Susann&#8217;s &#8220;The Valley of the Dolls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Valley of the Dolls&#8221; was about people having sex. &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; is about Jesus leaving Mary Magdalene pregnant with his baby while he dies on the cross. So in a sense, Mr. Brown&#8217;s novel respects tradition.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/columnists\/dhenninger\/?id=110008395\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Opinion Journal Daniel Henninger May 19, 2006 &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; shows that conspiracy theories have no limits. &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; would not be the subject of this column had it not sold 60.5 million copies, according to its publisher Doubleday. Of course this does not make it the best-selling book of &#8230; <a title=\"Holy Sepulcre!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/holy-sepulcre\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Holy Sepulcre!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}