{"id":778,"date":"2009-10-18T23:57:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T07:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=778"},"modified":"2009-10-18T23:57:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T07:57:22","slug":"see-the-forest-through-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/10\/18\/see-the-forest-through-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"see the forest through the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to finishing up <em>Love and Limerance<\/em> now that I&#8217;ve finished <em>This I Believe<\/em>. Chapter 7, &#8220;Limerance and Biology&#8221; begins with a few quotes throughout time commenting on the object of Love not being one that you get to choose. This should be a pretty meaningful chapter, specifically with my more recent ruminations of leveraging love or limerance to kick off a relationship and then using companionship and\/or attachment in second gear. There exists this [social?] implication that eventually all relationships come to a point of &#8220;true love&#8221; where ones care for another motivates them rather than attraction or limerance.<\/p>\n<p>She was definitely scared that I had fallen in love with her, and uncomfortable with the word &#8220;love&#8221; being used. I can appreciate that, I think I&#8217;ve been there, but it wasn&#8217;t anything she wanted to talk about. I&#8217;m still sort of dumb-founded when people ask if I&#8217;m willing to talk to them about a subject. I feel inside like I have a giant open sign blinking on my chest at all times and that it&#8217;s obvious that I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to finishing up Love and Limerance now that I&#8217;ve finished This I Believe. Chapter 7, &#8220;Limerance and Biology&#8221; begins with a few quotes throughout time commenting on the object of Love not being one that you get to choose. This should be a pretty meaningful chapter, specifically with my more recent ruminations of leveraging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}