{"id":34107,"date":"2023-09-19T17:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T17:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/write-an-essay-that-tells-a-story-about-your-family-or-is-a-part-of-your-familys-lore-in-this-context-family-can-be-either-those-related-to-you-by-blood-or-those-you-have-chosen-as-your-family\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T17:26:17","slug":"write-an-essay-that-tells-a-story-about-your-family-or-is-a-part-of-your-familys-lore-in-this-context-family-can-be-either-those-related-to-you-by-blood-or-those-you-have-chosen-as-your-family","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/write-an-essay-that-tells-a-story-about-your-family-or-is-a-part-of-your-familys-lore-in-this-context-family-can-be-either-those-related-to-you-by-blood-or-those-you-have-chosen-as-your-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Write an essay that tells a story about your family, or is a part of your family&#8217;s lore. In this context, &#8220;family&#8221; can be either those related to you by blood, or those you have chosen as your family."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">1) The focus of the story should be on the family member or members you&#8217;re writing about, *not* on yourself. Obviously, you can be a character or observer in the story, but the point is to&nbsp;tell a story&nbsp;about someone else.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">2) The story should have, as they say, a point: why did you choose to tell this story? Is it meant to inspire? To make&nbsp;someone laugh? Is it a cautionary tale or a lesson? Is it meant to draw a portrait of someone so the reader feels as if they know them?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>an interesting story with a playful tone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) The focus of the story should be on the family member or members you&#8217;re writing about, *not* on yourself. Obviously, you can be a character or observer in the story, but the point is to&nbsp;tell a story&nbsp;about someone else.&nbsp; 2) The story should have, as they say, a point: why did you choose to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[186],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=34107"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=34107"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=34107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}