{"id":2989,"date":"2016-10-12T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T08:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2022-05-11T11:58:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:58:58","slug":"gottschall-atwood-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/2016\/10\/12\/gottschall-atwood-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Gottschall and Atwood on: Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2990 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"650\" height=\"545\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cEven when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211; Jonathan Gottschall,&nbsp;Author, The Storytelling Animal<\/p>\n<p>Sound about right? We all dream, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Gottschall also said: \u201cWe are, as a species, addicted to story.\u201d And again, he\u2019s not wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Novelist Margaret Atwood said something similar: \u201cYou\u2019re never going to kill storytelling, because it\u2019s built into the human plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We talk in terms like this all the time at Collective Content.<\/p>\n<p>Our tag line since our founding has been \u2018We tell your stories\u2019. That\u2019s for the reasons Gottschall and Atwood mention \u2013 stories are part of what makes us human and we feel it\u2019s natural that people, in business increasingly, use them to connect with each other.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter &#8211; @ColContent<br \/>\n<strong>Need content right now? Try our new <\/strong><strong>WriteNow on-demand service<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEven when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.\u201d &#8211; Jonathan Gottschall,&nbsp;Author, The Storytelling Animal Sound about right? We all dream, after all.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectivecontent.agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}