{"id":253,"date":"2006-08-11T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T15:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/great-actors-stick-to-the-script\/"},"modified":"2006-08-11T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T15:28:23","slug":"great-actors-stick-to-the-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/great-actors-stick-to-the-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Great actors stick to the script."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/the-stanislavsky-method-of-biblical-interpretation\/\">previous article<\/a>, I hinted about my background in the theater. Sometimes it was hard being a better playwright than actor. Faced with difficult lines, mediocre actors (like me?) are tempted to change them. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand what the line means&#8221;&#8230; but presumably the playwright does.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That isn&#8217;t something I would have said&#8221;&#8230; but is it something the character would have said? How well do you know the character yet?<\/p>\n<p>The great actors can perform great plays without changing the lines. Instead, they change their attitudes and understanding, trusting in the author&#8217;s intent.<\/p>\n<p>Good advice for followers of Jesus as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous article, I hinted about my background in the theater. Sometimes it was hard being a better playwright than actor. Faced with difficult lines, mediocre actors (like me?) are tempted to change them. &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand what the line means&#8221;&#8230; but presumably the playwright does. &#8220;That isn&#8217;t something I would have said&#8221;&#8230; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desperate-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}