{"id":207,"date":"2013-07-27T22:29:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T22:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=207"},"modified":"2019-01-31T21:54:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:54:23","slug":"eternal-romantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Eternal Romantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 26, 2013<\/p>\n<p>I am wondering if, by nature, somehow, I am an eternal romantic.\u00a0 Is it desperation for love, or a draw toward the understanding of universal acceptance?\u00a0 Are we cognizant that we are \u201dall one\u201d at the most primal level?\u00a0 When you see a picture taken from a man-made satellite from past the rings of Saturn, looking back with a wide angle lens, do we not see the infinitesimally small importance of ourselves?<\/p>\n<p>What else makes more sense than love?\u00a0 Do we really exist in a glass, half full, or half empty?\u00a0 Is there a yin and yang that must both be fulfilled?\u00a0 Nay, I, the optimist, am totally swayed in the direction that there is a victor in the endo\/exothermic, order vs disorder conundrum.\u00a0 The first of all is love.<\/p>\n<p>If not love, then what becomes the meaning of hope?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 26, 2013 I am wondering if, by nature, somehow, I am an eternal romantic.\u00a0 Is it desperation for love, or a draw toward the understanding of universal acceptance?\u00a0 Are we cognizant that we are \u201dall one\u201d at the most primal level?\u00a0 When you see a picture taken from a man-made satellite from past the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eternal Romantic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-maturing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5908,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/5908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}