{"id":11126,"date":"2010-11-15T14:37:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/15\/to-brandeis-girl\/"},"modified":"2010-11-15T14:37:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T14:37:35","slug":"to-brandeis-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/15\/to-brandeis-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"To Brandeis Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I gave you my love <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You handed it back<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A letter unread.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You said,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&quot;It was wrongly addressed<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">To being-in-love<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And not to me.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You were wrong about that.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I loved love, but you too.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You should have handed it back<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Without explanation.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Better a brute refusal<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Than a refusal rationalized<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Badly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">With that I began to take a hard-eyed look at you<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The cataracts of love lasered to bits<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Your faults swam into view<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And our love was soon a dead letter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave you my love You handed it backA letter unread.You said,&quot;It was wrongly addressedTo being-in-loveAnd not to me.&quot; You were wrong about that.I loved love, but you too.You should have handed it backWithout explanation.Better a brute refusalThan a refusal rationalizedBadly. With that I began to take a hard-eyed look at youThe cataracts of love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/15\/to-brandeis-girl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To Brandeis Girl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}