{"id":1587,"date":"2015-12-20T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T20:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2015-12-27T12:21:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:21:40","slug":"making-up-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/making-up-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Making up stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. &#8230; Meaning making is in our biology, and our default is often to come up with a story that makes sense, feels familiar, and offers us insight into how best to self-protect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, we don&#8217;t need to be accurate, just certain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Bren\u00e9 Brown (<em>Rising Strong<\/em>, p. 79)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. &#8230; Meaning making is in our biology, and our default is often to come up with a story that makes sense, feels familiar, and offers us insight into how best to self-protect.&#8221; &#8220;Unfortunately, we don&#8217;t need to be accurate, just certain.&#8221; -Bren\u00e9 Brown (Rising &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/making-up-stories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making up stories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}