{"id":6004,"date":"2019-02-01T09:28:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2019-02-01T17:06:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T22:06:37","slug":"is-love-a-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/02\/01\/is-love-a-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"Is love a paradox?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw020119-3.jpg\" alt=\"Is love a paradox?\" class=\"wp-image-6003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw020119-3.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw020119-3-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw020119-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Is love a paradox?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As both a source of pain (when it&#8217;s rebuffed or withheld) and pleasure (when it&#8217;s reciprocated) it certainly contains multitudes &amp; conflicts. If it weren&#8217;t a paradox, then Pascal Bruckner&#8217;s bestseller in France, <em>Paradoxe Amoureux<\/em>, or <em>Paradox of Love<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-paradox\">bit.ly\/BC-paradox<\/a> &#8211; click Books at JSTOR for English version), might not have been a bestseller. It&#8217;s also paradoxical in that the more you give,<g class=\"gr_ gr_7 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"7\" data-gr-id=\"7\"> the more<\/g> you have, and the less you give, the less you have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As both a source of pain (when it&#8217;s rebuffed or withheld) and pleasure (when it&#8217;s reciprocated) it certainly contains multitudes &amp; conflicts. If it weren&#8217;t a paradox, then Pascal Bruckner&#8217;s bestseller in France, Paradoxe Amoureux, or Paradox of Love (bit.ly\/BC-paradox &#8211; click Books at JSTOR for English version), might not have been a bestseller. It&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/02\/01\/is-love-a-paradox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is love a paradox?&#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-6004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004","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=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6008,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/6008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}