{"id":4607,"date":"2009-11-27T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2009-11-27T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T03:04:09","slug":"ordinary-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2009\/11\/ordinary-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordinary Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie.                  Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it assures the &#8216;falling                  in love&#8217;- experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist                  I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and                  suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast                  amounts of energy desperately in an attempt to make the reality                  of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.&#8221;<br \/>\n~ <\/em>M. Scott Peck, from his book <strong>A Road Less Travelled<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this piqued my curiosity, extremely, and so I ordered myself a copy with a free credit on <a href=\"http:\/\/paperbackswap.com\" rel=\"external\">PaperBackSwap.com<\/a>. As usual, just going along with my gut instincts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it assures the &#8216;falling in love&#8217;- experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}