{"id":135541,"date":"2023-09-02T19:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135541"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:10:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:10:26","slug":"hour-10-what-is-love-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-10-what-is-love-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 10: What is Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is love?<\/p>\n<p>What a ridiculous question!<\/p>\n<p>What a ridiculous, unanswerable question!<\/p>\n<p>Love is a many splendid thing<\/p>\n<p>It is both ancient and timeless<\/p>\n<p>It knows no age, no bias, no gender, no bounds<\/p>\n<p>Love is limitless<\/p>\n<p>The limit does not exist<\/p>\n<p>Love is not something to be found, it just shows up<\/p>\n<p>In its own time, in its own place, on its own terms<\/p>\n<p>And it leaves in much the same way<\/p>\n<p>You can not lock it up or force it to stay<\/p>\n<p>You can not run away from it, you can not run to it<\/p>\n<p>It is a race you can not win<\/p>\n<p>Love is contrary and contradictory<\/p>\n<p>Slow burning-explosive<\/p>\n<p>Mutual-unrequited<\/p>\n<p>Platonic-passionate<\/p>\n<p>Terrifying- exhilarating<\/p>\n<p>Joyous- heartbreaking<\/p>\n<p>The dictionary defines love as &#8220;an intense feeling of affection&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just go with that&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is love? What a ridiculous question! What a ridiculous, unanswerable question! Love is a many splendid thing It is both ancient and timeless It knows no age, no bias, no gender, no bounds Love is limitless The limit does not exist Love is not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135541","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\/2454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135772,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135541\/revisions\/135772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}