{"id":178,"date":"2005-04-24T11:52:25","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T16:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2007-11-08T15:47:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T20:47:36","slug":"documenting-ordinary-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Documenting ordinary things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My older sister Jean teaches writing at Indiana University east. She and I sometimes talk about how a writer can bring the voices and lives of ordinary people to wider notice.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s recently developed a course that gets students to write about &#8220;real people and real events,&#8221; and then get that work out of the classroom to a wider public. I think it&#8217;s a great way to use the arts &#8212; read this article, and see what you think: http:\/\/www.homepages.indiana.edu\/042205\/text\/life.shtml<\/p>\n<p>I think there are some interesting paralells to her class, and what we do in churches &#8212; learn to listen to, learn to really see other people, and figure out ways to integrate the arts into ordinary lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My older sister Jean teaches writing at Indiana University east. She and I sometimes talk about how a writer can bring the voices and lives of ordinary people to wider notice. She&#8217;s recently developed a course that gets students to write about &#8220;real people and real events,&#8221; and then get that work out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-liberal-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}