{"id":2160,"date":"2009-06-14T05:07:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T13:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2009-06-14T05:07:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T13:07:46","slug":"theater-of-death-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/theater-of-death-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Theater of death and life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I highly recommend Ionesco&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2009\/bc0511hm.html\">Exit the King <\/a>to anyone who is in New York.\u00a0\u00a0 It is an almost\u00a0unbearably\u00a0wrenching exploration of mortality delivered by the most astounding theatrical performance&#8211;by Geoffrey Rush (for which he won a Tony)&#8211;I have seen in recent memory.\u00a0 I often find myself wondering during works that address liminal themes: \u00a0&#8220;so, is the author going to bring God into the picture?&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0Not here.\u00a0 Not that there is anything overtly or militantly secular about the play.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It simply addresses the fear of death and love for life in a purely human context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I highly recommend Ionesco&#8217;s Exit the King to anyone who is in New York.\u00a0\u00a0 It is an almost\u00a0unbearably\u00a0wrenching exploration of mortality delivered by the most astounding theatrical performance&#8211;by Geoffrey Rush (for which he won a Tony)&#8211;I have seen in recent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/theater-of-death-and-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}