# Rest API: Task with no associated stories

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/rest-api-task-with-no-associated-stories/43986>\
**Category:** API & Developers\
**Created:** [7 March 2019 02:23 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rest-api-task-with-no-associated-stories/43986 "2019-03-07T02:23:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [7 March 2019 09:47 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/rest-api-task-with-no-associated-stories/43986/4 "2019-03-07T09:47:59Z")

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> [@Bastien\_Siebman](#):
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> I remember discussing stories with you in a thread and had the feeling you can’t really trust their presence or completeness, correct?

Yes and no.

Yes, it’s correct that some time-based consolidation occurs and as a result, not all change events that occur on a task show up in the task’s stories.

But that consolidation also occurs in the UI display of activities on a task, so in other words, what gets returned by the API should match what displays on a task in the UI.

@Florian_Schoppmann, I wonder about “task created”, though, as shown in your screenshot - I’m not positive that particular event is included in stories. I don’t see it in the list of story information shown here detailing what gets reported: [No more parsing story text! New fields on stories!](https://forum.asana.com/t/no-more-parsing-story-text-new-fields-on-stories/42924).

If you make additional changes on the task, such that those are displayed in the UI for the task, do you then get those stories returned via the API?

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