{"id":23947,"date":"2021-12-23T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T20:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23947"},"modified":"2021-12-23T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T20:17:17","slug":"we-tell-ourselves-stories-in-order-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23947","title":{"rendered":"We tell ourselves stories in order to live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was very sad to read of the passing of Joan Didion. She is long been one of my cultural heroes, and I know that I am far from alone in this opinion.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure that I have not read all of her nonfiction, so today I bought the five book comprehensive collection  of her essays: &#8220;We tell ourselves stories in order to live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to it. Great reading by a warm fire for the winter holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very sad to read of the passing of Joan Didion. She is long been one of my cultural heroes, and I know that I am far from alone in this opinion. I am sure that I have not read all of her nonfiction, so today I bought the five book comprehensive collection of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We tell ourselves stories in order to live&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23948,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947\/revisions\/23948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}