{"id":4250,"date":"2012-08-10T09:38:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/2.0\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2012-08-10T09:38:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:38:38","slug":"parentingeducation-make-believe-and-stories-arent-just-kid-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/parentingeducation-make-believe-and-stories-arent-just-kid-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting\/Education: Make-believe and stories aren&#8217;t Just Kid Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read about a book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/05\/books\/review\/the-storytelling-animal-by-jonathan-gottschall.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">The Storytelling Animal<\/a>: How Stories Make Us Human<\/em>, by Jonathan Gottschall, that demonstrates the essential role that stories play in child development. Make-believe encourages the development of values, group identity,\u00a0prosocial behavior, \u00a0and social norms. The conclusion: Stories aren&#8217;t just child&#8217;s play (or just for children!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read about a book,\u00a0The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, by Jonathan Gottschall, that demonstrates the essential role that stories play in child development. Make-believe encourages the development of values, group identity,\u00a0prosocial behavior, \u00a0and social norms. The conclusion: Stories aren&#8217;t just child&#8217;s play (or just for children!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1820,1525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-parenting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}