{"id":3405,"date":"2017-08-03T03:15:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T10:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:26:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:26:48","slug":"fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2017\/08\/fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Can fiction help us work better in humanitarian aid &#038; development? Yes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/globalvolunteering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3055\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/globalvolunteering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>What can fiction teach people for working in humanitarian aid and development? Quite a lot! Fiction can build depth, richness and empathy to the concepts development professionals grapple with daily. Adaobi \u201cAda\u201d Nkeokelonye explores this topic regularly via her blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/fictioningdevelopment.org\">fictioningdevelopment.org<\/a>. She finds surprising connections between fictional narratives and her day-to-day experience as a development professional.\u00a0This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/q-a-what-can-fiction-reveal-about-development-90522\">interview with her from DevelopmentEx<\/a> offers great background.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s worth following on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Adankeokelonye\">@adankeokelonye<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2010\/12\/07\/aid-workers-in-fiction-new-abc-show-in-januar\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Aid workers in fiction \u2013 new ABC show in January in 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2011\/03\/18\/tv-depictions-of-volunteerism\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">TV depictions of volunteerism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can fiction teach people for working in humanitarian aid and development? Quite a lot! Fiction can build depth, richness and empathy to the concepts development professionals grapple with daily. Adaobi \u201cAda\u201d Nkeokelonye explores this topic regularly via her blog, fictioningdevelopment.org. She finds surprising connections between fictional narratives and her day-to-day experience as a development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1355],"tags":[76,244,1411,495,1816],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-advice","tag-capacity","tag-humanitarian","tag-television","tag-training","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3fFJB-fiction","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3630,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}