{"id":1551,"date":"2021-08-05T09:10:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T16:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2021-08-05T09:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T16:10:28","slug":"the-companionship-of-imaginary-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/the-companionship-of-imaginary-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"The Companionship of Imaginary Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Imaginary Characters in Your Head?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was Anne Tyler who said, &#8220;You would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer, once you get to know them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was struck by the word <em>companionship<\/em>. <strong>Com-<\/strong> means &#8220;with.&#8221; <strong>Pan-<\/strong> means &#8220;bread&#8221; or &#8220;meal.&#8221; So companionship carries the image of eating bread or a meal with someone. This is a rather delicious image: to break bread with imaginary figures.<\/p>\n<p>Paco and I certainly know the feeling Anne Tyler is describing.<\/p>\n<p>Do you?<\/p>\n<p>Comments welcomed!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imaginary Characters in Your Head? It was Anne Tyler who said, &#8220;You would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer, once you get to know them.&#8221; I was struck by the word companionship. Com- means &#8220;with.&#8221; Pan- means &#8220;bread&#8221; or &#8220;meal.&#8221; So companionship carries the image of eating bread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}