{"id":756,"date":"2009-06-01T23:21:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-interview-and-comments-on-a-new-book-in-yorkshire-post\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T18:17:19","slug":"pullman-interview-and-comments-on-a-new-book-in-yorkshire-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-interview-and-comments-on-a-new-book-in-yorkshire-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman interview and comments on a new book in Yorkshire Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yorkshire Post features an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/features\/I-told-stories-to-my.5310965.jp\">interview with Philip Pullman<\/a>, in which he discusses writing His Dark Materials, religious controversy, and his latest work, a retelling of the story of Jesus:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fascinated by theology. The book I&#8217;m writing at the minute is about Jesus. I did a talk at the National Theatre with the Archbishop of Canter-bury, we were talking about the theology in the books and he said: &#8216;You don&#8217;t mention Jesus at all&#8217;, so I put him in the next book, The Scarecrow and his Servant. Nobody noticed, so I thought I better make it clearer. &#8230; I&#8217;m writing about this very interesting character called Jesus, who is very different from the character Paul calls Christ. I&#8217;ve been reading the gospels and reading around them. It&#8217;s fascinating &#8211; and I&#8217;ve also realised it can&#8217;t all be true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pullman also talks about the stage plays and the movies. &#8220;In the fullness of time, if the rights revert to me I shall go over there (he points into his library) and cut out some cardboard figures and make it myself.&#8221; Thanks to Skye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yorkshire Post features an interview with Philip Pullman, in which he discusses writing His Dark Materials, religious controversy, and his latest work, a retelling of the story of Jesus: &#8220;I&#8217;m fascinated by theology. The book I&#8217;m writing at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-interview-and-comments-on-a-new-book-in-yorkshire-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3,58,38,19,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-philip-pullman","category-pullmans-gospels","category-religion","category-stage-adaptations","category-the-book-trilogy","category-golden-compass-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}