{"id":2906,"date":"2010-08-27T08:31:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T16:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2010-08-27T08:53:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T16:53:44","slug":"the-danger-of-a-single-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-danger-of-a-single-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The danger of a single story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"306\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D9Ihs241zeg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Chimamanda Adichie explains in a beautiful talk about how we construct single stories about people and cultures.  \u00a0This happens all the time with indigenous communities.  \u00a0People often hear one native person say something and attribute that quote or idea to a whole culture or even worse, to &#8220;Native Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adichie goes deeply into how the flattening of stories results in power shifts that lead to marginalization.  \u00a0 Spend the time watching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chimamanda Adichie explains in a beautiful talk about how we construct single stories about people and cultures. \u00a0This happens all the time with indigenous communities. \u00a0People often hear one native person say something and attribute that quote or idea to a whole culture or even worse, to &#8220;Native Americans.&#8221; Adichie goes deeply into how the flattening of stories results in power shifts that lead to marginalization. \u00a0 Spend the time watching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-KS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}