{"id":135149,"date":"2023-09-02T18:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135149"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:30:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:30:36","slug":"hour-10-what-is-love-when-you-have-only-one-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-10-what-is-love-when-you-have-only-one-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 10: \u201cWhat is love when you have only one word?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once ancient cultures had many words for love, many songs for it<br \/>\nMany modern languages still do<br \/>\nOnce the old Greeks had seven main words to describe the types of love.<br \/>\n*Main* words.<br \/>\nBut English?<br \/>\nEnglish fails me, fails you, fails us &#8211; fails our society<br \/>\nEnglish fails to allow us clarity of meaning, and intent<br \/>\nThe lack, paradoxically, limits<br \/>\nIt narrows, limits, filters the language through a filter of scarcity and avoidance.<br \/>\nWhat is love?<br \/>\nEnglish is my first language<br \/>\nSo while I can attempt to explain how I feel by<br \/>\n&#8211; grasping for metaphor<br \/>\n&#8211; utilising smilies<br \/>\n&#8211; Employing descriptive comparison<br \/>\nI cannot simply use, or say a word to encompass, to describe what I feel<br \/>\nBecause, in truth, I have no words adequate to the burden of my heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once ancient cultures had many words for love, many songs for it Many modern languages still do Once the old Greeks had seven main words to describe the types of love. *Main* words. But English? English fails me, fails you, fails us &#8211; fails our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135149","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\/4375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135256,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135149\/revisions\/135256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}