{"id":1937,"date":"2025-07-28T08:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:44:31","slug":"2025-fifth-workshop-prompts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/28\/2025-fifth-workshop-prompts\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Fifth Workshop Prompts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Turn a bit of your own family history into a story. This can even be an event in your own life, as long as it\u2019s more than five years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These are not true, or probably not true:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The ancient Greeks probably did conquer Troy but not with a wooden horse packed with warriors. Make up your own story of what may have happened.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The explorer Ponce de Le\u00f3n didn\u2019t really search for a fountain of youth in Florida in the sixteenth century. Make up your own story about what he was actually looking for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Napoleon Bonaparte wasn\u2019t really extremely short; he was of average height for his time. The confusion arose from differences in measurement systems. Write a story about how history has gotten his height so wrong. Who was responsible?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are not true, or probably not true:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}