{"id":88,"date":"2021-02-14T01:32:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T01:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2021-02-14T01:32:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T01:32:24","slug":"a-sonnet-on-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"A Sonnet on Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If love is patient, why does it always rage,<br>Against the wind, a pin-fall, or drop of rain?<br>If love is kind, then why doesn\u2019t it assuage<br>The burning sores, the endless, senseless pain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If love isn\u2019t proud, then why does it assert<br>Itself above the low and stifled soul?<br>If it isn\u2019t rude, why does it not concern<br>Itself with the earnest pleas of the whole?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If love does not envy, it would let go.<br>It would be humble if it did not boast;<br>It would be a light if it truly hoped,<br>And would deny itself, not seek its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let truth come, and by true love let it show:<br>This is not the love I have come to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">January 25, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If love is patient, why does it always rage,Against the wind, a pin-fall, or drop of rain?If love is kind, then why doesn\u2019t it assuageThe burning sores, the endless, senseless pain? If love isn\u2019t proud, then why does it assertItself above the low and stifled soul?If it isn\u2019t rude, why does it not concernItself with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77,79],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-sonnet","tag-true-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}