{"id":2169,"date":"2004-02-29T22:51:36","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T02:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/02\/29\/sanskrit-boy-on-the-passion\/"},"modified":"2004-02-29T22:51:36","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T02:51:36","slug":"sanskrit-boy-on-the-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/29\/sanskrit-boy-on-the-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanskrit Boy on the &#8220;Passion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2830'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ryan Overbey has a great review of<br \/>\nthe &#8220;Passion&#8221; movie. We are trying to read a variety of reviews,<br \/>\nbecause this is one movie the Dowbrigade will never see.&nbsp; Not for<br \/>\nreligious reasons &#8211; but we get faint at the sight of blood.&nbsp; We<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t make it through &#8220;Carrie&#8221; or &#8220;The Exorcist.&#8221;&nbsp; Still we are<br \/>\nglad Ryan saw it and can explain it to us&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>People sing songs like &#8220;Washed in the Blood of the Lamb&#8221; in church,<br \/>\nstrumming away at acoustic guitars and following along on the overhead<br \/>\nprojector, but they have no idea what those words mean. They&#8217;re<br \/>\nthinking of lots of things when they sing those songs, but surely<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re not imagining themselves soaked in blood, dripping wet with the<br \/>\nstuff, smelling the metallic stink of it, and wondering what being<br \/>\nwashed in it <em>actually means<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Overbey has a great review of the &#8220;Passion&#8221; movie. We are trying to read a variety of reviews, because this is one movie the Dowbrigade will never see.&nbsp; Not for religious reasons &#8211; but we get faint at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/29\/sanskrit-boy-on-the-passion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}