{"id":46405,"date":"2021-10-28T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46405"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:49:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T13:49:39","slug":"qotd-romantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/10\/28\/qotd-romantics\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Romantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Romantics tend to love not others, but romance itself. And when the &#8220;romance&#8221; fades they can&#8217;t move to a higher, deeper love, but only on to the next incident in a long chain of catastrophe tarted up into cheap opera.<\/p>\n<p>Gerard Vanderleun, <a href=\"http:\/\/americandigest.org\/mt-archives\/005456.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Man Who Loved Not Wisely But At Least Twice&#8221;, <em>American Digest<\/em><\/a>, 2005-04-29.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romantics tend to love not others, but romance itself. And when the &#8220;romance&#8221; fades they can&#8217;t move to a higher, deeper love, but only on to the next incident in a long chain of catastrophe tarted up into cheap opera. Gerard Vanderleun, &#8220;The Man Who Loved Not Wisely But At Least Twice&#8221;, American Digest, 2005-04-29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-46405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c4t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69398,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46405\/revisions\/69398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}