{"id":540,"date":"2019-05-03T19:09:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2019-05-03T19:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:09:37","slug":"the-doubters-mysteries-part-9-the-nativity-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-doubters-mysteries-part-9-the-nativity-of-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doubter&#8217;s Mysteries, Part 9 &#8211; The Nativity of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/09nativity-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-541\" srcset=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/09nativity-1024x768.png 1024w, http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/09nativity-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/09nativity-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;The Doubter&#8217;s Mysteries&#8217; are an attempt to write a short cycle of Mystery Plays &#8211; ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield &#8211; from the point of view of a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn&#8217;t believe in God, or can&#8217;t work out what he&#8217;s playing at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are fourteen of these plays, and the ninth is now online: &#8216;The Nativity of Jesus&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/mysteries\/09nativity.html\">http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/mysteries\/09nativity.html<\/a> (or for the full series so far, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/mysteries\">http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/mysteries<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The Doubter&#8217;s Mysteries&#8217; are an attempt to write a short cycle of Mystery Plays &#8211; ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield &#8211; from the point of view of a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn&#8217;t believe in God, or can&#8217;t work out what &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-doubters-mysteries-part-9-the-nativity-of-jesus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Doubter&#8217;s Mysteries, Part 9 &#8211; The Nativity of Jesus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}