{"id":1186,"date":"2009-10-08T12:08:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T10:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2009-10-08T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T10:08:32","slug":"a-story-of-a-girl-in-a-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/2009\/10\/08\/a-story-of-a-girl-in-a-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"A story of a girl in a forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found this. Not sure when it was published. A lovely story by <a href=\"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/the-path-on-us-radio-today\/\">Heather Chaplin<\/a> of her adventures in The Path. Well worth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmmakermagazine.com\/summer2009\/game_engine.php\">the read<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For me, The Path is about what a remarkably fine line it is that separates childhood from adulthood, innocence from cynicism, and how utterly not black-and-white most things in life are. It&#8217;s about the fact that, as much as we might like to believe otherwise, sometimes the places that should be the safest \u2014 figuratively, childhood and literally Grandma&#8217;s house \u2014 are actually the most dangerous; that sex can be both brutal and transcendendant; that females, at all stages of their girlhood, are vulnerable in a very particular way; and that there&#8217;s a certain inevitability to that vulnerability \u2014 no one gets through life without growing up. And sometimes growing up can be an experience that leaves you crumpled and nearly broken on the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found this. Not sure when it was published. A lovely story by Heather Chaplin of her adventures in The Path. Well worth the read! For me, The Path is about what a remarkably fine line it is that separates childhood from adulthood, innocence from cynicism, and how utterly not black-and-white most things in life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/ThePath\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}