{"id":16319,"date":"2017-06-08T07:25:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2017-06-08T08:12:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:12:28","slug":"how-would-you-define-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2017\/06\/how-would-you-define-love.html","title":{"rendered":"How Would You Define Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2017\/05\/ikkyu.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16091\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16091\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2017\/05\/ikkyu.jpg\" alt=\"ikkyu\" width=\"275\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asking for a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Please tell me in the comments\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nlaoR5m4L80\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Asking for a friend. 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