{"id":1702,"date":"2010-07-18T23:04:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T03:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/2010\/07\/stories-we-tell\/"},"modified":"2010-07-18T23:04:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T03:04:20","slug":"stories-we-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/18\/stories-we-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories We Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the 1930s an anthropologist Morris Olper recorded that among an Apache group of southern New Mexico, a person who had not acted ethically would be asked, &#8220;How could you do that? Didn&#8217;t you have a grandfather to tell you stories?&#8221; The spiritual and religious life depends on the stories you choose to write and tell and those we do not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sandy Sasso writes about her books and the importance of storytelling in an article called &#8220;The Role of Narrative in the Spiritual Formation of Children&#8221; in Family Ministry vol. 19, no. 2, Summer 2005. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1930s an anthropologist Morris Olper recorded that among an Apache group of southern New Mexico, a person who had not acted ethically would be asked, &#8220;How could you do that? Didn&#8217;t you have a grandfather to tell you stories?&#8221; The spiritual and religious life depends on the stories you choose to write and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/18\/stories-we-tell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stories We Tell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55,90,99,147,168],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-ethics","tag-interfaith","tag-listening","tag-storytelling","tag-youthwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}