{"id":1240,"date":"2017-12-11T18:44:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:59:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:59:07","slug":"gift-of-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/gift-of-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving the Gift of Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you tell someone your story, you give something meaningful of yourself.<br \/>\nSharing your experiences and your emotions gives value to your life at that<br \/>\nvery moment and the listener has something valuable to learn from it.<\/p>\n<p>Storytelling gives a whole new meaning to the word \u201cpresent\u201d because in order for that person to receive your gift of story, they have to be fully present in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to two storytellers who believe in the ability of story to give infinitely.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1238\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1238 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ted_storyasgift.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ted_storyasgift.jpg 402w, https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ted_storyasgift-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shonda Rhimes, Dave Isay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1240-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Barkada_17-12-11_StoryAsGift.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Barkada_17-12-11_StoryAsGift.mp3\">http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Barkada_17-12-11_StoryAsGift.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you tell someone your story, you give something meaningful of yourself. Sharing your experiences and your emotions gives value to your life at that very moment and the listener has something valuable to learn from it. Storytelling gives a whole new meaning to the word \u201cpresent\u201d because in order for that person to receive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/gift-of-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giving the Gift of Story<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[138,2,132],"tags":[144,143,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}