{"id":10836,"date":"2010-12-03T20:57:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T01:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10836"},"modified":"2010-12-03T20:57:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T01:57:58","slug":"not-a-tame-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/not-a-tame-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a tame lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aslan, the lion in C. S. Lewis\u2019s \u201cThe Narnia Chronicles\u201d, is a Christ figure. As Mr. Tumnus points out, he\u2019s not a tame lion which is more than can be said for the actor, Liam <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2010\/12\/04\/article-1335586-0C55BB91000005DC-22_468x335.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"190\" height=\"135\" \/>Neeson whose voice plays him. Neeson is only too tame when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1335586\/Liam-Neeson-upsets-Narnia-fans-claiming-Aslan-Mohammed-Christ.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">grovels before the altar of political correctness<\/a> by saying that Aslan also symbolises Mohammed and Buddha:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ahead of the release of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader next Thursday, Neeson said: \u2018Aslan symbolises a Christ-like figure but he also symbolises for me Mohammed, Buddha and all the great spiritual leaders and prophets over the centuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That\u2019s who Aslan stands for as well as a mentor figure for kids \u2013 that\u2019s what he means for me.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aslan, the lion in C. S. Lewis\u2019s \u201cThe Narnia Chronicles\u201d, is a Christ figure. As Mr. Tumnus points out, he\u2019s not a tame lion which is more than can be said for the actor, Liam Neeson whose voice plays him. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/not-a-tame-lion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[438,1008,2211,2225],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narnia-chronicles","tag-aslan","tag-liam-neeson","tag-narnia-chronicles","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}