{"id":106,"date":"2008-11-21T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2008\/11\/helping-you-help-me\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T06:51:00","slug":"helping-you-help-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2008\/11\/helping-you-help-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping You Help Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>We have a major star who is interested in playing Herod the Great in the movie I co-wrote \u201cMary, Mother of the Christ.  Said star has asked for a little beefing up of the role of Herod in the movie, and came up with the intriguing idea of having the terrible king show up at the scene of the slaughter of the innocents, and then make a speech to one of the dead babies.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, it is rather where I am living these days and all I can do not to have Herod say, \u201cHell, I don\u2019t know if this was wrong. <span style=\"font-style:italic\"> <span style=\"font-weight:bold\">It\u2019s above my paygrade.<\/span>\u201c<br><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I spent most of the last two days working on the scene, and I think it is coming out okay.  But I thought to toss it out to you loyal readers in case one of you has a cool idea about the scene pop into your head.  What do you think?  What did Herod think about the Slaughter of the Innocents?  How would he talk about it?  Would he be just dismissive like Obama about the unborn?  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