{"id":218,"date":"2010-08-09T01:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nabourke.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2010-08-09T01:58:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:58:20","slug":"isumatug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Isumatug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asked to consider the role of the writer, Mr. Lopez has said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I like to use the word <em>isumatug<\/em>.  It\u2019s of eastern Arctic Eskimo dialect and refers to the storyteller,  meaning \u2018the person who creates the atmosphere in which wisdom reveals  itself.\u2019 I think that\u2019s the writer\u2019s job. It\u2019s not to be brilliant, or  to be the person who always knows, but \u2026 to be the one who recognizes the  patterns that remind us of our obligations and our dreams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robineschner.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/endicottstudio.typepad.com\/endicott_redux\/images\/arctic_dreams_by_robin_escher.jpg?resize=350%2C218\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;Arctic Dreams&#39; by Robin Eschner<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked to consider the role of the writer, Mr. Lopez has said: I like to use the word isumatug. It\u2019s of eastern Arctic Eskimo dialect and refers to the storyteller, meaning \u2018the person who creates the atmosphere in which wisdom reveals itself.\u2019 I think that\u2019s the writer\u2019s job. It\u2019s not to be brilliant, or to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[167],"tags":[213,214,215],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-writing","tag-arctic-dreams","tag-barry-lopez","tag-robin-eschner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4LH1G-isumatug","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}