{"id":3,"date":"2012-08-24T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T12:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/?p=3"},"modified":"2012-08-24T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T12:53:29","slug":"why-do-we-need-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/2012\/08\/24\/why-do-we-need-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we “need” stories?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our reading for today, Banaszyknski describes stories as being “prayers, parables, history, music, and even our soul.” I really liked how she took that extra step in explaining “stories” rather than just the giving us the basic answer or baseline of all of those listed, which is communication.<\/p>\n

As humans we all just have this “need,” another need, and that is to understand. Understanding one another and understanding ideas and theories in general, I believe makes people feel closer. Communicating stories allows us to do that, and therefore the “need” for stories is present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our reading for today, Banaszyknski describes stories as being “prayers, parables, history, music, and even our soul.” I really liked how she took that extra step in explaining “stories” rather than just the giving us the basic answer or … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/jazminepaige\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}