{"id":29071,"date":"2025-10-25T14:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29071"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:03:58","slug":"what-is-love-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/10\/25\/what-is-love-8\/","title":{"rendered":"What is love?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AW10252025.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AW10252025.jpeg\" alt=\"What is love?\" class=\"wp-image-29070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AW10252025.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AW10252025-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AW10252025-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What is love?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are so many kinds of love! So many words in so many different languages. Here is a short poem about different kinds of love in Arabic by Philip Metres, who recently graced Gasson Hall with a reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>because there is a word for love in this tongue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that entwines two people as one<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&amp; there is a word for love in this tongue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that nests in the chambers of the heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&amp; a word for love in this tongue that wanders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the earth, for love in this tongue in which you lose<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>yourself in this tongue &amp; a word that carries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sorrow within its vowels &amp; a word for love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that exudes from your pores &amp; a word<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for love that shares its name with falling<br><strong>\u2013Philip Metres, from <\/strong><strong><em>Shrapnel Maps<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many kinds of love! So many words in so many different languages. Here is a short poem about different kinds of love in Arabic by Philip Metres, who recently graced Gasson Hall with a reading: ) because there is a word for love in this tongue that entwines two people as one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/10\/25\/what-is-love-8\/\" 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071","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=29071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29082,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29071\/revisions\/29082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}