{"id":13906,"date":"2014-01-23T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=13906"},"modified":"2013-12-24T11:53:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T18:53:37","slug":"oral-history-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/oral-history-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral History Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re 64 wouldn&#8217;t you like someone to ask you about your life story and then preserve it? When you&#8217;re 24 wouldn&#8217;t you like to learn what really happened back in the day?  Here are some great tips for interviewing and archiving these stories, including two chapters packed with a hundred great sample questions to ask. Technology makes this easy to do. I&#8217;ve done regular video interviews with my children as they grew up and with my parents and in-laws. One of the smartest things I&#8217;ve done. This book hadn&#8217;t been published then (and it&#8217;s the best of a half dozen on the subject), but if I had read it then I would have done a better job. Right behind me, my high-school age son is now capturing oral\/visual histories, and he found this book extremely helpful too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best how-to for life stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13910,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906\/revisions\/13910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}