{"id":1709,"date":"2025-09-25T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:33:47","slug":"secretarys-corner-44-sep-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2025\/09\/secretarys-corner-44-sep-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary&#8217;s Corner 44 &#8211; Sep 28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you know me, you know I am a <em>stickler<\/em> for historical accuracy. This can mean accuracy to the actual time period, or accuracy to the fictional history of a story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Books-to-movie adaptations will forever scare me. I don\u2019t trust <em>anyone<\/em> these days to tell a story accurately. I want all the good stuff in a book to translate to the movie. Or, at least, most of it. As long as there is some effort there, I can enjoy the story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if they do a bad job\u2026you do NOT want to ask my opinion. I will be ranting forever on what they missed, what they added, how they changed the ENTIRE story with one missed detail\u2026 It\u2019s kind of a problem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve gotten a lot better over the years. I can handle the classic 1985 Anne of Green Gables movie now. They changed stuff, but they stayed true to the characters for the most part. But I\u2019m still <em>terrified <\/em>for Netflix\u2019s new Pride and Prejudice adaptation. (You don\u2019t need to redo something that has already been done well <em>multiple times<\/em>!) And I hope Disney never ever remakes Tangled. Ever. It would not be the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this ridiculous desire for accuracy comes from the deep desire for truth. I want it to be truthful to the original story. I want the truth to be shown, not some fake version that doesn&#8217;t paint the full picture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Truth is so important. No matter what the world says, truth will always be truth. It\u2019s not \u201cyour truth and my truth.\u201d That defeats the purpose of truth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.\u201d (John 8:32)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know me, you know I am a stickler for historical accuracy. This can mean accuracy to the actual time period, or accuracy to the fictional history of a story.&nbsp; Books-to-movie adaptations will forever scare me. I don\u2019t trust anyone these days to tell a story accurately. I want\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2025\/09\/secretarys-corner-44-sep-28\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[108,13,12,100],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secretarys-corner","tag-accuracy","tag-blog","tag-secretary","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}