{"id":4704,"date":"2012-05-17T02:21:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T02:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:09","slug":"good-stories-are-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/good-stories-are-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Good stories are complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Ken Burns talks about why he loves conflict, villans and complications](http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/archive\/2012\/05\/ken-burns-on-story\/257165\/). A few choice quotes:<\/p>\n<p>> My interest is always in complicating things.<\/p>\n<p>> All story is manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>> The kind of narrative I subscribe [to] trusts in the possibility that people could change.<\/p>\n<p>> We do coalesce around stories that seem transcendent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Ken Burns talks about why he loves conflict, villans and complications](http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/archive\/2012\/05\/ken-burns-on-story\/257165\/). A few choice quotes: > My interest is always in complicating things. > All story is manipulation. > The kind of narrative I subscribe [to] trusts in the possibility that people could change. > We do coalesce around stories that seem transcendent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,385],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-writing-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1dS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}