{"id":3260,"date":"2009-02-12T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2009-02-12T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:05:45","slug":"to-love-is-to-suffer-and-so-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/to-love-is-to-suffer-and-so-on\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To Love Is to Suffer.&#8221; And So On."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a title=\"What Kate Did Next: 'Love &amp; Sex'\" href=\"http:\/\/katelordbrown.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/love-sex.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kate&#8217;s post today<\/a>, she tackles Valentine&#8217;s Day a couple days early. (Determined to beat the rush, perhaps. You probably didn&#8217;t know the Internet charges a premium on Valentine&#8217;s-Day blog posts about love and sex.) But her post&#8217;s title reminded me of <a title=\"Wikipedia, on 'Love and Death'\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Love_and_Death\" target=\"_blank\">this film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip below, Diane Keaton&#8217;s character, Sonia, seems bored of the manifold loves-me\/loves-me-not\/loves-her\/loves-him\/does-not-either details in her cousin&#8217;s monologue. 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In the clip below, Diane Keaton&#8217;s character, Sonia, seems bored of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[183,53,713],"tags":[409,982,983,984,985],"class_list":{"0":"post-3260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-everyday-life","7":"category-movies-media","8":"category-humor-writing_cat","9":"tag-what-kate-did-next","10":"tag-diane-keaton","11":"tag-woody-allen","12":"tag-love-death","13":"tag-valentines-day","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-QA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}