{"id":542,"date":"2008-06-28T20:17:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T00:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/06\/28\/love-changes-us\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T20:17:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T00:17:23","slug":"love-changes-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Love Changes Us."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had this unoriginal thought as I walked out the door and toward my van:\u00c2\u00a0 love changes us, makes us into people whom others then want to love.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s why, to those of us without it, love is the voice asking, <em>What else?\u00c2\u00a0 What else?<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 And to those of us who have had love and lost it or thrown it away, then love is the voice that leads us back to love, to see if it might still be ours or if we&#8217;ve lost it for good.\u00c2\u00a0 For those of us who&#8217;ve lost it, love is also the thing that makes us speak in aphorisms about love, which is why we try to get love back, so we can stop speaking that way.\u00c2\u00a0 Aphoristically, that is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <em>Sam Pulsifer, <\/em>in <em>An Arsonist&#8217;s Guide to Writers&#8217; Homes in New England, <\/em>by Brock Clarke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had this unoriginal thought as I walked out the door and toward my van:\u00c2\u00a0 love changes us, makes us into people whom others then want to love.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s why, to those of us without it, love is the voice asking, What else?\u00c2\u00a0 What else?\u00c2\u00a0 And to those of us who have had love and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}