{"id":3193,"date":"2020-08-16T01:53:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T06:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2020-08-01T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T12:00:08","slug":"a-good-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/08\/a-good-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Most of us profess to like a good story, but do we?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stories are important. They inform others of our path to where we are today. We love stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or do we love the word &#8220;story?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we love stories, we would tell them often. We would type the words to the story so that others could &#8220;hear&#8221; the story later by reading those words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my experience, I find far more persons who like story than who will type the words to a story. They seem to love the word &#8220;story&#8221; more than an actual story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess I have this all wrong. There is some fear of typing words that freezes persons. Maybe English teachers in public schools did this to people over the generations. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a writer.&#8221; Odd, everyone I know who has told me this was able to talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something about typing the words that we say that has been beaten out of us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And who says public schools are not effective at teaching? Perhaps some teachers teach love of the word &#8220;story&#8221; without teaching love of story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Most of us profess to like a good story, but do we? Stories are important. They inform others of our path to where we are today. We love stories. Or do we love the word &#8220;story?&#8221; If we love stories, we would tell them often. We would type the words to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,43,346,5],"tags":[154,165,347,128],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-ideas","category-stories","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-ideas","tag-stories","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193","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=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3194,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}