{"id":608,"date":"2016-11-30T10:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janemarshall.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2016-11-30T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:39:50","slug":"if-you-want-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janemarshall.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"If You Want Love&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying<em> &#8220;If you want love, then love and be lovable.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I&#8217;ll get a little down, thinking about wanting more love in my life. \u00a0I wish that I &#8216;felt&#8217; more loved and special to those whom I love. When I let myself be sad about it I notice that I withdraw from people and retreat inside myself. \u00a0From within that dark and lonely place, I notice that nobody is getting to feel loved! \u00a0So, in the spirit of Benjamin&#8217;s wisdom, I have decided to let go of my own need. \u00a0I am going to love and be lovable. \u00a0Then at least those I love will feel the\u00a0warmth. \u00a0It&#8217;s even likely, as I smile writing this, that I will begin feeling more loved as a result. \u00a0The Universe is predictable like that.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Marshall<br \/>\nDana Point, California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying &#8220;If you want love, then love and be lovable.&#8221; Sometimes I&#8217;ll get a little down, thinking about wanting more love in my life. \u00a0I wish that I &#8216;felt&#8217; more loved and special to those whom I love. When I let myself be sad about it I notice that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janemarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janemarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janemarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janemarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janemarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/janemarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/janemarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janemarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janemarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janemarshall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}