{"id":739,"date":"2016-09-11T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/?p=739"},"modified":"2016-09-14T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T18:05:07","slug":"connection-to-storytelling-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/2016\/09\/11\/connection-to-storytelling-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Connection to Storytelling and Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I ran across a buzzed article by Mike Spohr that connected to Storytelling and Identity, and I wanted to share it with everyone. Last week Anna Dwdney, a children&#8217;s book author, passed away from brain cancer. According to Buzzfeed, her final request was that, &#8220;&#8230; in lieu of a funeral service- people read to a child instead&#8221; (Spohr). After reading the article about the stories our parents tell us, this request\u00a0really spoke to me. I have a lot of fond memories of reading stories with my mom when I was little, so I was really touched by all the pictures that were included in the article of parents reading to their children. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mikespohr\/this-beloved-childrens-authors-final-request-will-make-you-c?utm_term=.npol97w9V#.cpr2v81vY\">link to the\u00a0article<\/a> if anyone wants to check it out. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I ran across a buzzed article by Mike Spohr that connected to Storytelling and Identity, and I wanted to share it with everyone. Last week Anna Dwdney, a children&#8217;s book author, passed away from brain cancer. According to Buzzfeed, her final request was that, &#8220;&#8230; in lieu of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2997,"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":[44423,44425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2016","category-reading-reflections","column","twocol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7RVTr-bV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","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\/2997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}