{"id":35076,"date":"2018-02-26T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=35076"},"modified":"2018-01-22T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T03:06:16","slug":"a-writing-quote-from-ben-okri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2018\/02\/26\/a-writing-quote-from-ben-okri\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote From Ben Okri"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&#8220;A people are as happy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Stories can conquer fear and make the heart larger.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>~ Ben Okri<\/h3>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Ben Okri is a contemporary novelist and poet, who won the Booker Prize (UK) in 1991 for <em>The Famished Road <\/em>and the Premio Palmi (Italy) in 2000 for <em>Dangerous Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A people are as happy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Stories can conquer fear and make the heart larger.&#8221; ~ Ben Okri &#8212; Ben Okri is a contemporary novelist and poet, who won the Booker Prize (UK) in 1991 for The Famished Road and the Premio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35078,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35076\/revisions\/35078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}