{"id":3281,"date":"2020-12-05T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:46:17","slug":"story-dark-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/05\/3281\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The story \u201cDark Room\u201d highlights the fact that anxiety is a widespread human experience, and invites the listener to think about who and what can help to bring light into a life filled with darkness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you still remember being a child and lying in bed\nin the dark? A dark which was so impenetrable that you were afraid of it.\nPerhaps you called for your parents, or perhaps you just stayed absolutely\nsilent and pulled the quilt over your head and under your heels so that there\nwas no way in at all. Anything might be lurking out there in the dark \u2013 a\ngoblin, an animal or an evil person. I said \u201cmight\u201d, but one time there was definitely\nsomething moving around under the bed or in the wardrobe, I could just feel it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you still remember how it felt when you called your\nparents and they came to see you? First you would hear your father\u2019s or your\nmother\u2019s footsteps, then the door would open and light would flood into the\nroom. Perhaps you were dazzled by the light to begin with, but that wasn\u2019t a\nproblem. The darkness had gone. Someone was there to look after you. The fear\nvanished, and all the night-time ghosts became powerless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story \u201cDark Room\u201d highlights the fact that anxiety is a widespread human experience, and invites the listener to think about who and what can help to bring light into a life filled with darkness. Do you still remember being … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}