{"id":241,"date":"2014-03-02T11:47:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2014-03-16T09:40:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T13:40:03","slug":"the-narrative-bridge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"The Narrative Bridge 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-242 alignleft\" alt=\"Charleston bridge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Charleston-bridge-272x300.jpg\" width=\"151\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Charleston-bridge-272x300.jpg 272w, http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Charleston-bridge.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/>The Narrative Bridge conference was a pleasure and an inspiration to attend: excitingly interdisciplinary, refreshingly hands-on, AND held in a city (Charleston, SC) NOT in the grip of sub-sub-zero temperatures. Highlights included: some amateur theatricals (a &#8220;reader&#8217;s theatre&#8221; event, organised by Mahala Yates Stripling, in which a handful of volunteers, myself included, performed a reading of a short play by Richard Selzer); Lauren Mitchell&#8217;s meditation on &#8220;The Anatomy of Bearing Witness: Surgical Culture, Visual Humility, and Narrative&#8221;; and, most movingly, a talk by Shannon Richards-Slaughter entitled &#8220;The Hospital and the Blues: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QzcpUdBw7gs\">&#8216;St. James Infirmary&#8217;<\/a> and the Existential Condition of Illness and Death.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Narrative Bridge conference was a pleasure and an inspiration to attend: excitingly interdisciplinary, refreshingly hands-on, AND held in a city (Charleston, SC) NOT in the grip of sub-sub-zero temperatures. Highlights included: some amateur theatricals (a &#8220;reader&#8217;s theatre&#8221; event, organised by Mahala Yates Stripling, in which a handful of volunteers, myself included, performed a reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/?p=241#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shelleywall.layfigures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}