{"id":14097,"date":"2015-06-14T08:04:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=14097"},"modified":"2015-06-14T08:04:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:04:18","slug":"22-what-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/22-what-is-love\/","title":{"rendered":"22. What is love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-and-bible.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14140\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-and-bible.jpg\" alt=\"love and bible\" width=\"162\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love is patient and kind,<\/p>\n<p>Why is there violence?<\/p>\n<p>Love does not envy and not boast,<\/p>\n<p>Why is there greed?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Love is not proud and is not rude,<\/p>\n<p>Why do we allow hostility?<\/p>\n<p>Love is not self-seeking and is not easily angered,<\/p>\n<p>Why do we allow aggression?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Love keeps no record of wrongs,<\/p>\n<p>Why do we not forgive?<\/p>\n<p>Love rejoices with the truth,<\/p>\n<p>Why do we lie?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Love protects, perseveres, and hopes<\/p>\n<p>Love to be loved!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Biblical Allusion I Corinthians 13:4-5)<\/p>\n<p>From Poems, Thoughts and More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love is patient and kind, Why is there violence? Love does not envy and not boast, Why is there greed? &nbsp; Love is not proud and is not rude, Why do we allow hostility? Love is not self-seeking and is not easily angered, Why do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097","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\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14148,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097\/revisions\/14148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}