{"id":134898,"date":"2023-09-02T18:14:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134898"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:14:16","slug":"a-hapless-poet-asks-what-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-hapless-poet-asks-what-is-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hapless Poet Asks, &#8220;What is Love?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath<br \/>\nof an argument<br \/>\nabout nothing<br \/>\nand everything.<br \/>\nI wondered<br \/>\nwhat is love<br \/>\nif not the<br \/>\nturning of perspective<br \/>\nso that one sees<br \/>\nclarity over confusion<br \/>\nfeels peace consume suffering<br \/>\nsees the dark of fear<br \/>\ndissipate in the light.<br \/>\nWhat is love?<br \/>\nLove is the truth.<br \/>\nAll else is illusion.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t get lost there<br \/>\nor all will be lost there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of an argument about nothing and everything. I wondered what is love if not the turning of perspective so that one sees clarity over confusion feels peace consume suffering sees the dark of fear dissipate in the light. What is love? Love&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5772,6067,5765],"class_list":["post-134898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023hour10","tag-2023poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134898","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\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145289,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134898\/revisions\/145289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}