{"id":556,"date":"2005-06-02T19:25:54","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T00:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/06\/02\/one-of-those-laquobboiiinngraquo-moments\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T15:55:33","slug":"one-of-those-laquobboiiinngraquo-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/556","title":{"rendered":"One of those ~bbBOIIINNG~ moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/\">Brendan<\/a> said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/nfd\/2005\/06\/01\/4\">yesterday<\/a> really got me fixated on a line of thought. For some reason I don&#8217;t consider myself a writer (perhaps a diarist or &#8220;journal-ist&#8221; at best), and yet telling stories has been a part of my imaginative side for as long as I can remember&#8212; whether illustrative, oral, or written. The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer may have been the first nonlinear story, but I didn&#8217;t read Homer (just the condensed juvenile versions) until long after my brothers and I had begun to create a rich oral\/written tradition that&#8217;s almost 50 years old now. It&#8217;s nonlinear nature is one of its strongest suits. It&#8217;s been called various things over the years, but now we generally refer to it as &#8220;The Legend.&#8221; If I keep thinking about this I&#8217;ll have the ingredients for another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/search\/uj?q=Oldenday&amp;submit=Search\">Oldenday<\/a> segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something Brendan said yesterday really got me fixated on a line of thought. For some reason I don&#8217;t consider myself a writer (perhaps a diarist or &#8220;journal-ist&#8221; at best), and yet telling stories has been a part of my imaginative side for as long as I can remember&#8212; whether illustrative, oral, or written. The Iliad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35,26,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}