{"id":1873,"date":"2011-06-04T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T20:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2011-06-04T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T20:31:25","slug":"truth-in-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Truth in Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good fiction is about what is true.  It takes the true stuff of life and helps us look at it.  If the story compels a good reading, it probably raises questions.  It brings life to life, as it were; it helps us see what is true and what is good and what is not so good.  Everything we do has meaning; fiction helps us find meaning.  Because fiction is about human beings and their lives, it cannot help having an ethical dimension.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gladys Hunt, <em>Honey for a Woman&#8217;s Heart<\/em>, p. 44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good fiction is about what is true. It takes the true stuff of life and helps us look at it. If the story compels a good reading, it probably raises questions. It brings life to life, as it were; it helps us see what is true and what is good and what is not so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9,3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life","category-reading","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}