{"id":382,"date":"2014-03-07T06:09:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T06:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2014-03-07T06:09:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T06:09:47","slug":"emmaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/emmaus\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road to Emmaus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an eerie quality to the Resurrection appearances that I never paid much attention to when I read them primarily for their theological or pedagogical content. Now, reading them as much as I can as if for the first time, as raw accounts of events I have no preconceived notions about, it&#8217;s this almost science-fiction-y aspect that strikes me the hardest. Jesus mysteriously appears and disappears, like &#8211; well, like a ghost. His former followers don&#8217;t even recognize him at first, and then they do. (What&#8217;s that about?)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/pdf\/Emmaus.pdf\">In this play about the two disciples who meet Jesus on the road to Emmaus<\/a>, I try to capture that otherworldly strain, and combine it with the very earthbound fear the disciple felt as they hid out from the Romans, all their hopes shattered. There wasn&#8217;t much more for me to do, and I hope I did a satisfactory job.<\/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>There is an eerie quality to the Resurrection appearances that I never paid much attention to when I read them primarily for their theological or&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/emmaus\/\" title=\"On the Road to Emmaus\" 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-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}