{"id":1220,"date":"2016-11-01T23:27:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T03:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2016-11-07T14:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T19:02:05","slug":"thoughts-on-our-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/2016\/11\/01\/thoughts-on-our-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on our project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guys in Bon Air asked a good question: what is in it for them? \u00a0Sure they have enjoyed talking and a relief from boredom. But the final project&#8211; why should they write or draw something for it?<\/p>\n<p>Ashley and I had worked out some goals for the project overall (see the Bon Air tab for a reminder) \u00a0but now it comes to you. How do you think this project can matter?<\/p>\n<p>A famous writer (John Berger) said: &#8220;If I am a storyteller it&#8217;s because I listen. For me, a storyteller is a passeur (smuggler) who gets contraband across a frontier.&#8221; \u00a0Do you agree? What, in your case, is the contraband? what is the frontier? \u00a0How are you &#8220;smuggling?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to hearing your reflections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guys in Bon Air asked a good question: what is in it for them? \u00a0Sure they have enjoyed talking and a relief from boredom. But the final project&#8211; why should they write or draw something for it? Ashley and I had worked out some goals for the project overall &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2991,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[288,44426,44423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-experiential-reflections","category-fall-2016","column","twocol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7RVTr-jG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}