{"id":422,"date":"2014-04-20T03:26:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T03:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2014-04-20T03:26:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T03:26:42","slug":"net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/net\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I must admit that when I first began writing plays based on the readings from this chapter of Matthew, I assumed that all the parables in it were largely unrelated, that it was a loose collection of parables spoken at various times, or maybe an account of a single sermon where Jesus told parables teaching a variety of lessons. However, during the writing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/pdf\/net.pdf\">this final play in the series<\/a>, I realized that it was possible to combine them into a single thematic structure. They would still touch on different aspects of these theme, but the central unifying theme would be there.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;problem&#8221; was that the central theme is a fairly repugnant one, at least to me. However, as I wrote in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/parables\/\">the last blog post<\/a>, this is exactly the time when we should set aside our explanations and rationalizations and embrace the repugnance the raw texts present to us. For therein lies the Kingdom.<\/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>Wow. I must admit that when I first began writing plays based on the readings from this chapter of Matthew, I assumed that all the&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/net\/\" title=\"Like a Net\" 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-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}