{"id":5343,"date":"2017-12-30T23:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T03:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2017-12-30T23:25:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T03:25:17","slug":"story-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5343","title":{"rendered":"Story First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it was a theological as well as a literary enterprise for me, but as a storyteller I had to make the story come first.  I sat down and typed out <em>&#8220;It was a dark and stormy night.&#8221;<\/em>  The theology is down deep.  It&#8217;s not there unless you look for it.  And that&#8217;s where I think it should be in stories.  It should not hang below your skirt like a slip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, quoted in <em>Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, Herself<\/em>, compiled by Carole F. Chase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it was a theological as well as a literary enterprise for me, but as a storyteller I had to make the story come first. I sat down and typed out &#8220;It was a dark and stormy night.&#8221; The theology is down deep. It&#8217;s not there unless you look for it. And that&#8217;s where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,34,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-story","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343","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=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}