{"id":54717,"date":"2019-06-22T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54717"},"modified":"2019-06-22T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:24:06","slug":"philosophical-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/philosophical-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, I defined love<br \/>\nAs acting in the best interests of the beloved.<br \/>\nWhile that is still sometimes a thing I can believe,<br \/>\nIt is not something I can believe constitutes all of love,<br \/>\nOr even the most meaningful parts &#8211;<br \/>\nAs if it were possible to always know the best interests of someone else!<\/p>\n<p>Love is a chemical reaction,<br \/>\nAs much emotion as proaction.<br \/>\nWe shape the quality of our relationships<br \/>\nWith the material we bring to them &#8211;<br \/>\nBrick and mortar, wood and straw.<br \/>\nIt is the invisible elixir of personality interplay,<br \/>\nThe love you give and the love that is given.<\/p>\n<p>Love is a thing you do, not a thing you are or say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, I defined love As acting in the best interests of the beloved. While that is still sometimes a thing I can believe, It is not something I can believe constitutes all of love, Or even the most meaningful parts &#8211; As&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54717","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\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54739,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54717\/revisions\/54739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}