{"id":181,"date":"2021-09-24T21:33:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T21:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonconstam.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2021-09-25T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T16:23:40","slug":"mellifluous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonconstam.com\/mellifluous\/","title":{"rendered":"A Criticism of life without Excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It won\u2019t be enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why doesn\u2019t Alan run off to Borneo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or some other place, with his girlfriend?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or fall in love with Gillian?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even that\u2019s not much. Love doesn\u2019t translate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the first argument or forgiveness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it\u2019s almost impossible to reconcile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what you wanted to do<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with what you\u2019re got in front of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You really have to think of something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It won\u2019t be enough. Why doesn\u2019t Alan run off to Borneo or some other place, with his girlfriend? Or fall in love with Gillian? Even that\u2019s not much. Love doesn\u2019t translate. After the first argument or forgiveness, it\u2019s almost impossible to reconcile what you wanted to do with what you\u2019re got in front of you. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonconstam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonconstam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonconstam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonconstam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonconstam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonconstam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonconstam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonconstam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonconstam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}