{"id":2294,"date":"2014-12-02T18:06:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T01:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:17:39","slug":"art-connects-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/quotes-of-inspiration\/art-connects-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Art connects us."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-deep-burgandy-color has-text-color has-link-color has-def-font-size wp-elements-7daf9d6952191f4a483cb965e64684b0 has-background\" style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:600;background-image:url(&apos;https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/smudge1.png&apos;);background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:contain;\"><blockquote><p>It\u2019s a very deep experience for so many people to read \u2018Wild\u2019 and feel what they feel, because of course they\u2019re not feeling it about my life, but about their own. And that\u2019s what art does. It reminds us that we are more alike than different and that our common humanity connects us really profoundly.<\/p><cite>\u2014 Cheryl Strayed<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-def-font-size\"><strong>Cheryl Strayed<\/strong>, author of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wild-Found-Pacific-Crest-Trail\/dp\/0307476073\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1417568590&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=cheryl+strayed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wild<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a very deep experience for so many people to read \u2018Wild\u2019 and feel what they feel, because of course they\u2019re not feeling it about my life, but about their own. And that\u2019s what art does. It reminds us that we are more alike than different and that our common humanity connects us really profoundly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-with-comments","format":"standard","meta":{"selected_specialist_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2448,638,924,2215,2042,2053],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-cheryl-strayed","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14922,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/14922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}