{"id":12704,"date":"2015-06-14T02:40:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12704"},"modified":"2015-06-14T02:40:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:40:09","slug":"love-conquers-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/love-conquers-none\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Conquers None"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love doesn&#8217;t conquer all;<\/p>\n<p>No amount of love is sufficient to donkey-punch Death and keep our loved ones with us and immune from the effects of aging and disease;<\/p>\n<p>Even short of that, relationships where one or both of the parties thought they were in love end every day;<\/p>\n<p>But we\u00a0<em>want<\/em> to believe in the cliche;<\/p>\n<p>We want to believe because it fits with everything we&#8217;ve been\u00a0<em>told<\/em> about love and how it&#8217;s this magical force that will somehow\u00a0<em>make us whole<\/em>;<\/p>\n<p>What they don&#8217;t tell us about is fear;<\/p>\n<p>Fear is the force to watch;<\/p>\n<p>Fear can twist those we love the most into our worst adversaries;<\/p>\n<p>Fear is what upends our placid arrangements;<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t stop fear any more than we can block an earthquake<\/p>\n<p>All we can do instead;<\/p>\n<p>Is;<\/p>\n<p>Rebuild once it has passed.<\/p>\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love doesn&#8217;t conquer all; No amount of love is sufficient to donkey-punch Death and keep our loved ones with us and immune from the effects of aging and disease; Even short of that, relationships where one or both of the parties thought they were in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12828,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions\/12828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}