{"id":3331,"date":"2021-10-30T21:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:39:08","slug":"story-the-route-through-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/30\/3331\/","title":{"rendered":"The Route Through the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/transport-2579544_1920-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/transport-2579544_1920-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/transport-2579544_1920-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/transport-2579544_1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/transport-2579544_1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/transport-2579544_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The\nfable \u201cThe Route Through the Mountain\u201d can be used to help the listener to\nsearch for or realise his or her vision. It implies the existence of great and\nas-yet-untapped opportunities, and encourages the exploration of new avenues of\nthought. Although disguised as a fable, in structural terms it is the biography\nof an inventor or explorer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d a young swallow asked her mother. It was the first time she had joined the flock in its annual migration over the Alps. \u201cThose are the rolling boxes which carry people around,\u201d answered her mother. \u201cBut why are they coming out of the mountain here? This morning, when we were on the other side, they went into the mountain. Is it the same boxes which go in over there and come out over here?\u201d \u201cI suppose so,\u201d answered her mother absent-mindedly. \u201cCouldn\u2019t we do that too?\u201d continued the young swallow. \u201cIt\u2019s cold and windy up here, and the route over the mountain must be much longer than the route which the boxes take.\u201d \u201cNo swallow has ever flown through a mountain.\u201d \u201cReally?\u201d asked the young swallow. She was already elsewhere in her thoughts, and these thoughts caused her eyes to light up <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fable \u201cThe Route Through the Mountain\u201d can be used to help the listener to search for or realise his or her vision. It implies the existence of great and as-yet-untapped opportunities, and encourages the exploration of new avenues of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/30\/3331\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","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=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/3624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}