{"id":135551,"date":"2023-09-02T18:59:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135551"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:56:10","slug":"what-is-love-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/what-is-love-23\/","title":{"rendered":"What is love?  (Prompt 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is love? <\/p>\n<p>\u2018What is love?\u2019 is not a rhetorical question<br \/>\nprobably doesn\u2019t need to be asked<br \/>\nunless other banalities are unavailable<br \/>\nbetter to have not loved and asked<\/p>\n<p>What isn\u2019t love?<\/p>\n<p>Love isn\u2019t the clich\u00e9s you see on<br \/>\nposters, mugs, memes<br \/>\nlove isn\u2019t sappy songs or rom coms<br \/>\nsoap opera TV serials or<br \/>\nHallmark holiday movies<\/p>\n<p>Love isn\u2019t what you think it is<br \/>\nlove isn\u2019t what you try<br \/>\nlove isn\u2019t what you want it to be<br \/>\nlove isn\u2019t we\u2019ll never say goodbye<\/p>\n<p>Love is<br \/>\nLove isn\u2019t<br \/>\nLove was<br \/>\nLove wasn\u2019t<br \/>\nLove isn\u2019t should have<br \/>\nLove isn\u2019t could have<br \/>\nLove certainly isn\u2019t would have<\/p>\n<p>Which is why she wasn\u2019t<br \/>\nwhich is why I couldn\u2019t<br \/>\nwhich is why we didn\u2019t <\/p>\n<p>And in the end<br \/>\nthe proof was right there<br \/>\nbecause all we could<br \/>\nsay at the time was<br \/>\nit just isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2023<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd\">http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is love? \u2018What is love?\u2019 is not a rhetorical question probably doesn\u2019t need to be asked unless other banalities are unavailable better to have not loved and asked What isn\u2019t love? Love isn\u2019t the clich\u00e9s you see on posters, mugs, memes love isn\u2019t sappy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[5772,6067,5765,6091],"class_list":["post-135551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023hour10","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-2023prompt10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135551","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143187,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135551\/revisions\/143187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}