{"id":569,"date":"2015-10-20T23:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2015-10-20T23:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T23:00:36","slug":"pilate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/pilate\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 0.5em 0em 0.5em 1em; padding: 1em; border: 1px solid black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=matthew%2027:11-26\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew 27:11-26<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=mark%2015:1-15\" target=\"_blank\">Mark 15:1-15<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=luke%2023:1-25\" target=\"_blank\">Luke 23:1-25<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=john%2018:28-40\" target=\"_blank\">John 18:28-40<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I cheated in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/pdf\/pilate.pdf\">this play about Jesus&#8217; appearance before Pontius Pilate<\/a>. I lifted the entire scene, almost verbatim, from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097635\/\">Jesus of Montreal<\/a>&#8220;, one of my ten favorite movies of all time. (A movie I&#8217;ve watched every year around Easter with a different friend or grouping of friends for over 20 years now!) If that leads a single reader to go on to watch the movie, this play will have accomplished its purpose.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That left the play at only 400-something words, though, and I&#8217;ve been keeping to a range of 1800-2200 words for every \u00a0play, so I added scenes before and after exploring the doom of Pilate and that other well-meaning engineer of Jesus&#8217; fate: Judas Iscariot. I had no basis in the original story for my takes on these two figures &#8212; well, a little for Pilate &#8212; but I went ahead and followed my usual Wineskin Project practice of portraying the usual Sunday School villains in the best (or at least most thought provoking) light.<\/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>Matthew 27:11-26 Mark 15:1-15 Luke 23:1-25 John 18:28-40 I cheated in this play about Jesus&#8217; appearance before Pontius Pilate. I lifted the entire scene, almost&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/pilate\/\" title=\"Pilate\" 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-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}