{"id":512431,"date":"2023-01-14T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T10:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=512431"},"modified":"2023-01-24T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T09:23:37","slug":"resurrecting-the-storytelling-ape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/resurrecting-the-storytelling-ape","title":{"rendered":"Resurrecting the Storytelling Ape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Safina, New York Times bestselling author and wildlife ecologist believes that humans should be called homo narratus instead of homo sapiens, the storytelling ape, because stories play a central role in our lives. Thousands of years ago, those stories were told around the sacred fire, later on the back porch.&nbsp;&nbsp;Today they&#8217;re told on YouTube, Instagram and Tic Toc but missing the context, communal connections and the face-to-face intimacy.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were&nbsp;shared by elders, helping us learn our place in the world, a cornerstone of human civilization for thousands of years. Those old stories entertained, taught us lessons, helped us feel connected to our ancestors, placed us within the great chain of history, and put our lives in context with the rest of the living world.&nbsp;&nbsp;Native people understood that nature meant for everything to be connected and they lived their lives with the knowledge that anything that was taken, had to be given back or the world would be out of balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Safina, New York Times bestselling author and wildlife ecologist believes that humans should be called&#160;homo narratus&#160;instead of&#160;homo sapiens,&#160;the storytelling ape, because stories play a central role in our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}