{"id":2918,"date":"2010-06-06T07:44:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T07:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:06:19","slug":"bridgman-metchim-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bridgman-metchim-donald\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgman-Metchim, D(onald)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>D(onald) <\/strong><strong>B<\/strong><strong>ridgman<\/strong><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><strong>M<\/strong><strong>etchim<\/strong> published <em>Atlantis: The Book of the Angels<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>199<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> at the beginning of the last century, in which he gave what has been described as an Atlantean interpretation of the Book of Genesis. It is written in the form of a novel and has little to do with either Genesis or Atlantis. It was reprinted in 2004 and quite frankly; I don\u2019t know why they bothered. For those with nothing better to do, the full text is available on-line<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Little is recorded of the author\u2019s life, except that he wrote a second book<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>200<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> about the First World War and also appears to have laboured as an artist.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/atlantisbookofan00bridiala\/atlantisbookofan00bridiala_djvu.txt\">https:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/atlantisbookofan00bridiala\/atlantisbookofan00bridiala_djvu.txt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D(onald) Bridgman&#8211;Metchim published Atlantis: The Book of the Angels[199] at the beginning of the last century, in which he gave what has been described as an Atlantean interpretation of the Book of Genesis. It is written in the form of a novel and has little to do with either Genesis or Atlantis. It was reprinted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5091,721],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bridgman-metchim","tag-genesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65874,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/65874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}