{"id":169,"date":"2013-04-03T06:03:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2013-05-12T18:46:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T18:46:52","slug":"banquet-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/banquet-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Places of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/pdf\/banquet%20places.pdf\">this play<\/a>, I return to the home of Susanna&#8217;s husband, the broadminded Pharisee who invited Jesus to his home in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/women\/\">The Women<\/a>, but the atmosphere is completely different. The lectionary reading upon which this play is based is an odd one:\u00a0Luke 14:1,7-14. The story itself is found in verses 7-14, but the first verse from the chapter is tacked on to it, as a kind of prologue. And what does that prologue say? That Jesus was being carefully watched by the other Pharisees at the time.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thus, a note of foreboding is introduced into all the subsequent proceedings. It&#8217;s a note that&#8217;s really in the background of all the stories, as Jesus works his slow and winding way toward his fate in Jerusalem, but it&#8217;s specifically sounded in this reading, and so I use it to drive much of the action of the play. Jesus unleashes an oddly harsh sermon based on an oddly cynical premise. A disciple decides to drop out, while another who was planning to leave decides to stay. And James continues to completely misunderstand what will happen once they get to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this play, I return to the home of Susanna&#8217;s husband, the broadminded Pharisee who invited Jesus to his home in The Women, but the&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/banquet-places\/\" title=\"Places of Honor\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}