{"id":14562,"date":"2014-05-10T11:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T10:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14562"},"modified":"2014-05-10T11:47:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T10:47:59","slug":"the-power-of-the-story-four-versions-of-different-lengths-for-you-to-consider-and-savour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14562","title":{"rendered":"The power of the story &#8211; four versions of different lengths for you to consider and savour"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses.&#8221;<br \/>\nAleks Krotoski, &#8220;Observer&#8221;, 7 August 2011<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stories are compensatory. The world is unfair, unjust, unknowable, out of control.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?&#8221; by Jeannette Winterson (2011)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Telling stories is our way of coping, a way of creating shape out of a mess. It binds everyone together.&#8221;<br \/>\nCanadian film director Sarah Polley, &#8220;Observer&#8221;, 23 June 2013<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are so many different ways to tell stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One version is the novel which can take days or weeks to read. I have reviewed many of the novels that I have read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Another version is the movie which typically takes just a couple of hours to view. I have reviewed many oif the films that I have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/2010\/filmreviews.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Yet another version is the short story which one can usually read in a single sitting. I have published 31 short stories which I have myself written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/2010\/shortstories.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>One more version is the story with a moral which can usually be read in minutes. I have collected 60 motivational tales <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/stories.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses.&#8221; Aleks Krotoski, &#8220;Observer&#8221;, 7 August 2011 &#8220;Stories are compensatory. The world is unfair, unjust, unknowable, out of control.&#8221; &#8220;Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?&#8221; by Jeannette Winterson (2011) &#8220;Telling stories is our way of coping, a way of creating shape out of a mess. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14562"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14574,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562\/revisions\/14574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}