{"id":5739,"date":"2019-01-21T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T19:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2019-01-22T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T21:57:39","slug":"what-is-the-real-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/21\/what-is-the-real-love\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the real love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5738\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012119-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5738\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012119-7-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"What is the real love?\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012119-7.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012119-7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012119-7-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What is the real love?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You ask a question with many, many answers. C.S. Lewis wrote a book called <em>The Four Loves<\/em> (O&#8217;Neill Library BV4639 .L45 1988), drawing on the Greek notions of love in the Bible: Storge (empathy) Philia (friend) Eros (erotic) and Agape (unconditional &#8220;God&#8221; love). Here&#8217;s Shakespeare&#8217;s take on it in sonnet 116: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/shake-love\">bit.ly\/shake-love<\/a>. (Maybe that&#8217;s Eros.) One might also note familial love, unrequited love, the love of knowledge (philosophy)&#8230; it&#8217;s a long list. Which is &#8220;real&#8221;? I think all of them are. What do they share? The object of love is the focus of total trust &amp; devotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You ask a question with many, many answers. C.S. Lewis wrote a book called The Four Loves (O&#8217;Neill Library BV4639 .L45 1988), drawing on the Greek notions of love in the Bible: Storge (empathy) Philia (friend) Eros (erotic) and Agape (unconditional &#8220;God&#8221; love). Here&#8217;s Shakespeare&#8217;s take on it in sonnet 116: bit.ly\/shake-love. (Maybe that&#8217;s Eros.) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/21\/what-is-the-real-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the real 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739","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=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}