{"id":718,"date":"2009-01-26T00:59:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T04:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/01\/26\/the-power-of-story-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-26T00:59:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T04:59:31","slug":"the-power-of-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All stories are full of bias and uniqueness; they mix fact with meaning.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the root of their power.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories allow us to see something familiar through new eyes.\u00c2\u00a0 We become in that moment a guest in someone else&#8217;s life, and together with them sit at the feet of their teacher.\u00c2\u00a0 The meaning we may draw from someone&#8217;s story may be different from the meaning they themselves have drawn.\u00c2\u00a0 No matter.\u00c2\u00a0 Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, <em>Kitchen Table Wisdom, <\/em>p. xl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All stories are full of bias and uniqueness; they mix fact with meaning.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the root of their power.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories allow us to see something familiar through new eyes.\u00c2\u00a0 We become in that moment a guest in someone else&#8217;s life, and together with them sit at the feet of their teacher.\u00c2\u00a0 The meaning we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}