{"id":4831,"date":"2014-05-21T21:12:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T04:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2014-05-21T21:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T04:12:37","slug":"what-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2014\/05\/21\/what-is-love\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not going to try to answer that one tonight. For an earlier attempt see <a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2012\/07\/20\/a-definition-of-love\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, a really good place to start (or end!) could be this ancient Gaelic poem, translated here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>What is Love?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A love much-enduring through a year is my love,<br \/>\nIt is grief in the heart,<br \/>\nIt is stretching of strength beyond its bounds,<br \/>\nIt is the four quarters of the world,<br \/>\nIt is the highest height of heaven,<br \/>\nIt is breaking of the neck,<br \/>\nIt is battle with a spectre,<br \/>\nit is drowning with water,<br \/>\nIt is a race against heaven,<br \/>\nIt is champion-deeds beneath the sea,<br \/>\nIt is wooing the echo<br \/>\nSo is my love, and my passion<br \/>\nAnd my devotion to her to whom I gave them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not going to try to answer that one tonight. For an earlier attempt see here. However, a really good place to start (or end!) could be this ancient Gaelic poem, translated here: What is Love? A love much-enduring through a year is my love, It is grief in the heart, It is stretching &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2014\/05\/21\/what-is-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is Love?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4833,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions\/4833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}