{"id":159,"date":"2011-10-18T15:46:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2011-10-18T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T20:46:51","slug":"the-universe-is-made-of-stories-not-of-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/18\/the-universe-is-made-of-stories-not-of-atoms\/","title":{"rendered":"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."},"content":{"rendered":"

— quote from The Speed of Darkness<\/em>, 1968
\nMuriel Rukeyser,<\/strong> an American poet, philosopher and social activist<\/p>\n

It’s akin to the concept behind “connecting the dots” or “it’s all about how strangely we’re all connected…somehow.” Because stories are our lives woven to make us realize we are more similar than we are different. In stories, we find our purpose, our voice, our calling. Is there a natural order in the universe? Yes. Where one ends, another begins. Much like… stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— quote from The Speed of Darkness, 1968 Muriel Rukeyser, an American poet, philosopher and social activist It’s akin to the concept behind “connecting the dots” or “it’s all about how strangely we’re all connected…somehow.” Because stories are our lives woven to make us realize we are more similar than we are different. In stories, … Continue reading The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}