{"id":69617,"date":"2013-11-01T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=69617"},"modified":"2017-03-16T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:59:35","slug":"kelley-romano-what-i-mean-when-i-say-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/01\/kelley-romano-what-i-mean-when-i-say-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"What I mean when I say: &#8216;Myth,&#8217; with Stephanie Kelley-Romano"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_69618\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/kelley-romano-130924_Faculty_Portraits_033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69618\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69618\" alt=\"Associate Professor of Rhetoric Stephanie Kelley-Romano\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/kelley-romano-130924_Faculty_Portraits_033-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/kelley-romano-130924_Faculty_Portraits_033-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/kelley-romano-130924_Faculty_Portraits_033-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/10\/kelley-romano-130924_Faculty_Portraits_033.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Associate Professor of Rhetoric Stephanie Kelley-Romano<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Stephanie Kelley-Romano, associate professor of rhetoric, says the word &#8220;myth,&#8221; she means:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An overarching, ideological system of beliefs that runs our lives, somewhat unbeknownst to us. Religions, political ideologies or things we think are &#8216;natural&#8217; are actually beliefs and socially constructed systems. These myths allow us to feel as though we are participating in a life that is predictable and safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The series &#8220;What I Mean When I Say&#8221; explains terms and phrases used by professors of Bates College in their teaching and research.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When rhetoric professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano says &#8220;myth,&#8221; she means this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":69618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10754,8163,10116],"class_list":["post-69617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-rhetoric-film-and-screen-studies","tag-stephanie-kelley-romano","tag-what-i-mean-when-i-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69617"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106455,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69617\/revisions\/106455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}