{"id":1435,"date":"2018-03-20T06:03:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T10:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2018-03-20T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:25:25","slug":"what-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/03\/20\/what-is-love\/","title":{"rendered":"What is love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1434\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG-4736-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1434\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG-4736-1-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"What is love?\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What is love?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I said in answer to this in November: &#8220;Let&#8217;s just get one thing out of the way: It absolutely does NOT mean never having to say you&#8217;re sorry, Erich Segal&#8217;s Love Story notwithstanding. (For more on the profound interaction we call apology, read Aaron Lazare&#8217;s On Apology: BF575 .A75 L39 2004.) There are at least as many dimensions to love as there are words for it in all the world&#8217;s languages. In an answer last spring, I pointed out that the ancient Greek word &#8220;agape&#8221; means love that expects nothing in return: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AW-agape\">bit.ly\/AW-agape<\/a>. I&#8217;ve also pointed out that it&#8217;s helpful to recall that love is a verb, and calls you to do things for people: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AW-love-feeling\">bit.ly\/AW-love-feeling<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I said in answer to this in November: &#8220;Let&#8217;s just get one thing out of the way: It absolutely does NOT mean never having to say you&#8217;re sorry, Erich Segal&#8217;s Love Story notwithstanding. (For more on the profound interaction we call apology, read Aaron Lazare&#8217;s On Apology: BF575 .A75 L39 2004.) There are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/03\/20\/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":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","category-relationships","tag-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}