{"id":235,"date":"2007-12-11T23:22:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/12\/11\/mythic-truth-of-fiction\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T23:22:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T03:22:23","slug":"mythic-truth-of-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Mythic Truth of Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why else do we read fiction, anyway?\u00c2\u00a0 Not to be impressed by someone&#8217;s dazzling language &#8212; or at least I hope that&#8217;s not our reason.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not &#8220;true&#8221; because we&#8217;re hungry for another kind of truth:\u00c2\u00a0 The mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all:\u00c2\u00a0 our own self-story.\u00c2\u00a0 Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Orson Scott Card, Introduction, <em>Ender&#8217;s Game, <\/em>1991 Tor edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why else do we read fiction, anyway?\u00c2\u00a0 Not to be impressed by someone&#8217;s dazzling language &#8212; or at least I hope that&#8217;s not our reason.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not &#8220;true&#8221; because we&#8217;re hungry for another kind of truth:\u00c2\u00a0 The mythic truth about human nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}