{"id":6760,"date":"2023-07-07T10:49:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T14:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2023-07-07T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T14:49:38","slug":"why-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=6760","title":{"rendered":"Why stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/08\/special-series\/the-big-question-why-do-we-tell-stories.html\">Here&#8217;s the NYT<\/a>, with a collection of writers and folks talking about why we tell stories.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2023\/07\/10\/seduced-by-story-peter-brooks-bewitching-the-modern-mind-christian-salmon-the-story-paradox-jonathan-gottschall-book-review\">Here&#8217;s Parul Sehgal on stories f<\/a>rom the new issue of the New Yorker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think I&#8217;ll use some mix of these in my second English unit &#8212; trying to get at the &#8220;why we tell stories&#8221; question and what the short story form means for that inquiry.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the NYT, with a collection of writers and folks talking about why we tell stories. Here&#8217;s Parul Sehgal on stories from the new issue of the New Yorker. Think I&#8217;ll use some mix of these in my second English unit &#8212; trying to get at the &#8220;why we tell stories&#8221; question and what the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=6760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why stories<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-note"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-1L2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6761,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}