{"id":935,"date":"2009-02-06T18:28:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T01:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2009\/02\/06\/freedom-through-stories-freedom-from-stories\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:33:44","slug":"freedom-through-stories-freedom-from-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"freedom through stories, freedom from stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops! I let that last post get rather long. Here is another.<\/p>\n<p>Louise, this is a very personal situation, so I don&#8217;t have much to say. Does it look different if you look in terms of stories? Yours? His? Your reaction to his? Your reaction to yours? I don&#8217;t mean to intellectualize this; just to steer you (us) away from single-minded knowing.<\/p>\n<p>David, when you write that you&#8217;re &#8220;enthralled with making meaning by matching stories,&#8221; it makes me wonder: Is there perhaps <em>too much<\/em> enjoyment of the stories? Or is what enthralls you the freedom from stories (even though that sounds paradoxical)?Something like that is suggested by the last line of your post: &#8220;I become the space the stories seem to flow within.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, for those of you who read that line and say, &#8220;Boy, I never become space!&#8221; and get discouraged, let me suggest this (though of course I can&#8217;t speak for David): sometimes it is just the hint of a glimpse of a possibility. It can sound so much more emphatic when you put it into words!<br \/>\nJack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoops! I let that last post get rather long. Here is another. Louise, this is a very personal situation, so I don&#8217;t have much to say. Does it look different if you look in terms of stories? Yours? His? Your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=935\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general","category-tsk-online-fall-2008winter-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}