{"id":43747,"date":"2011-06-13T20:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T00:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/43747\/love-15\/"},"modified":"2011-06-13T20:32:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T00:32:39","slug":"love-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/43747\/love-15\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is Love?<\/h2>\n<p>My favorite description of <strong>love<\/strong> is from the movie <em>Captain Corelli&#8217;s Mandolin<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Love  is a temporary madness. It erupts like an  earthquake and then  subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a  decision. You have to  work out whether your roots have become so  entwined together that it  is inconceivable that you should ever part.  Because this is what love  is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not  excitement, it is not the  promulgation of promises of eternal passion.  That is just being &#8220;in  love&#8221; which any of us can convince ourselves we  are. Love itself is  what is left over when being in love has burned  away, and this is both  an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I  had it, we had roots  that grew towards each other underground, and when  all the pretty  blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we  were one tree and  not two.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>-St. Augustine<\/p>\n<p><\/em>No one  has ever given a  better description of love.\u00a0 This quotation has always  blown me  away&#8230;love consists of two individuals that start out on a   journey&#8230;and in the end the two become as one&#8230;awesome &amp;   amazing&#8230;I told you all that I was a romantic!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Love? My favorite description of love is from the movie Captain Corelli&#8217;s Mandolin: &#8220;Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}