{"id":7530,"date":"2012-04-06T17:11:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=7530"},"modified":"2012-04-06T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:51:09","slug":"the-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=7530","title":{"rendered":"The Deposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; devotional, Good Friday ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Word is<\/strong><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>You could fold Christ up, once he&#8217;s dead<br \/>\nand you&#8217;ve taken him down from the cross:<\/p>\n<p>he bends at the knees, the painter<br \/>\nknew this, his head droops to one side,<br \/>\nhe weighs as much as he did when<br \/>\nstill alive but he&#8217;s gone now, what remains<br \/>\nare the remains, he folds at the knees,<br \/>\nthis is not unlike lifting furniture, don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>let him drop. The painter caught you<br \/>\nwhile you were holding &#8212; is anything more<br \/>\nprecious, can you even believe who,<br \/>\nwhat you are carrying? &#8212; his dead body,<br \/>\ndamp with water, sweat, grievous blood.<\/p>\n<p>And the Word is &#8212; he was who he always is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/weyden-deposition-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7537\" title=\"weyden-deposition-2\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/weyden-deposition-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/weyden-deposition-21.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/weyden-deposition-21-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rogier van der Weyden<\/strong>, <em>Descent from the Cross<\/em> (ca. 1435, Museo del Prado, Madrid)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; devotional, Good Friday ] . The Word is . You could fold Christ up, once he&#8217;s dead and you&#8217;ve taken him down from the cross: he bends at the knees, the painter knew this, his head droops to one side, he weighs as much as he did when still alive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7530"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7542,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions\/7542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}