{"id":2227,"date":"2016-07-14T01:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T06:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2016-06-26T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T23:50:10","slug":"the-history-story-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/07\/the-history-story-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"The History-Story Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is often a gap between our history and our story about our history. I suppose, since most of us are not famous, that is okay.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have experiences\u2014those comprise our history. Then we tell people a story about those experiences. Sometimes the stories enhance the histories.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama has some doozies. So did George Bush. So did Bill Clinton, and Brian Williams, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, those are famous people with famous stories and lots of fact checkers. The trouble that famous people have is that there are a lot of fact checkers out there. These fact checkers might as well be called<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>history-story gap closers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of us, well, we get away with our stories because it isn\u2019t worth checking on them. I suppose this is another security from obscurity case. I guess that is okay.<\/p>\n<p>Want to get away with lots of history-story gaps? Write fiction that is loosely based your history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips There is often a gap between our history and our story about our history. I suppose, since most of us are not famous, that is okay. We have experiences\u2014those comprise our history. Then we tell people a story about those experiences. Sometimes the stories enhance the histories. Barack Obama has some doozies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,70,22,56,4,102],"tags":[154,190,144,177,127,217],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-excuses","category-fable","category-family","category-security","category-teaching","tag-communication","tag-excuses","tag-fable","tag-family","tag-security","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}