{"id":527,"date":"2007-06-01T18:06:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T01:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/01\/the-importance-of-narrative-and-redemption\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T01:09:07","slug":"the-importance-of-narrative-and-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/01\/the-importance-of-narrative-and-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of narrative — and redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Is Your Life (and How You Tell It) - New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

By contrast, so-called generative adults \u00e2\u20ac\u201d those who score highly on tests measuring civic-mindedness, and who are likely to be energetic and involved \u00e2\u20ac\u201d tend to see many of the events in their life in the reverse order, as linked by themes of redemption<\/em> [emphasis mine]. They flunked sixth grade but met a wonderful counselor and made honor roll in seventh. They were laid low by divorce, only to meet a wonderful new partner. Often, too, they say they felt singled out from very early in life \u00e2\u20ac\u201d protected, even as others nearby suffered.<\/ul>\n
The work redemption <\/em>caught my eye since it very much fits with the way I have seen my own past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Is Your Life (and How You Tell It) – New York Times: By contrast, so-called generative adults \u00e2\u20ac\u201d those who score highly on tests measuring civic-mindedness, and who are likely to be energetic and involved \u00e2\u20ac\u201d tend to see … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","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}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I6qs-8v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}