{"id":5424,"date":"2020-11-15T20:57:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T20:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2020-11-15T20:57:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T20:57:23","slug":"the-passion-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/15\/the-passion-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passion of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had been walking the streets of Paris for over an hour in search of my friends<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the time of festivals and the city was alive with theatre<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was near La Defence when I first saw the Passion of Christ<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was performed by an actor in a bloodied loincloth and two actresses<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The whispered performance was drawing some attention as the actresses were topless<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I watched them for while and then noticed that another was being performed nearby<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This theatre was repeated many times as I made my way across the city<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes Christ\u2019s loincloth was bloodied and in other performances it was pure<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the poetry was always identical and the pain was constant<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was as I approached the district of St Martin that I saw my friends<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were engaged in a performance of The Resurrection<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I watched them enter the tomb and emerge soon after<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bringing news of its vacancy to the assembled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been walking the streets of Paris for over an hour in search of my friends It was the time of festivals and the city was alive with theatre I was near La Defence when I first saw the Passion of Christ It was performed by an actor in a bloodied loincloth and two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}