{"id":785,"date":"2009-10-21T00:56:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T08:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=785"},"modified":"2009-10-21T00:56:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T08:56:13","slug":"limerance-intrudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/10\/21\/limerance-intrudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerance intrudes."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What is behind the irrationality that seizes otherwise reasonable human beings, forcing them to set aside other goals and strivings and to focus on a single other individual , who may be of little interest prior to limerance and also of little interest afterward?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I recall reading early in the book about and identifying with\u00a0 <em>Love and Limerance<\/em> having thoughts, even fantasies, of tragic events bringing two people together. On the ride home today, I was thinking about the americanized version of <em>High Fidelity<\/em>, and how the death of Laura&#8217;s father brought her back to Rob. I&#8217;d be really interested in why the choice was made to write the script that way, doubly so because it is so different from the original book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is behind the irrationality that seizes otherwise reasonable human beings, forcing them to set aside other goals and strivings and to focus on a single other individual , who may be of little interest prior to limerance and also of little interest afterward? I recall reading early in the book about and identifying with\u00a0 [&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\/785"}],"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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}