{"id":227,"date":"2008-12-17T12:36:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T12:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=227"},"modified":"2008-12-23T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T02:35:24","slug":"friendship-over-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2008\/12\/friendship-over-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship : Over Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-248\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/21.jpg?resize=104%2C89\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amorous feelings are overrated.<br \/>\nAs if they are &#8221;all or nothing&#8221; for some.<br \/>\nWhy must your love interest be your lover?<br \/>\nWhy can&#8221;t you try to be good friends?<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8221;t you just be buddies<br \/>\nespecially if you already were?<br \/>\nWhy can&#8221;t you settle for anything less<br \/>\nthan being someone&#8221;s &#8221;exclusive&#8221; one?<\/p>\n<p>Why must there be bitterness when rejected?<br \/>\nWhy can&#8221;t there be more understanding instead?<br \/>\nWhy must there be tension thereafter?<br \/>\nWhy not be more open now that it&#8221;s &#8221;over&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>You know your love is too worldly<br \/>\nwhen it easily toggles to become hate,<br \/>\nwhen failure to be attached leads to aversion,<br \/>\nwhen your beloved one becomes your loathed one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amorous feelings are overrated. As if they are &#8221;all or nothing&#8221; for some. Why must your love interest be your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[116,24,25],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","tag-friendship","tag-hatred","tag-love","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}