{"id":307,"date":"2005-02-18T21:42:21","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T01:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/?p=307"},"modified":"2008-10-01T22:14:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T02:14:38","slug":"communication-and-textual-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/2005\/02\/communication-and-textual-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication and Textual Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/journal\/?p=317\">Post has moved here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"essay-teaser\">\n<p>Stories have the weight they do because they are metaphors; they employ symbols, hopefully shared ones, to convey more than everyday words do. This demands even more work on the part of the hearers\/collaborators than usual. After making that kind of demand, after choosing to use more than usually obscure and ambiguous media for communication, I think it&#8217;s a bit much for the authors to get pissy over readers attaching meanings they didn&#8217;t have in mind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-fic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}