{"id":8410,"date":"2013-10-25T06:01:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T06:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/25\/a-cure-for-infatuation-3\/"},"modified":"2013-10-25T06:01:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T06:01:56","slug":"a-cure-for-infatuation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/25\/a-cure-for-infatuation-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cure for Infatuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Marriage is an excellent cure for infatuation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It is also a test whether the infatuation was something more. If the marriage lasts and deepens, then it was; if not, then it wasn&#39;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">To be infatuated is to be rendered fatuous, silly.&#0160; Not that infatuation is all bad.&#0160; A love that doesn&#39;t begin with it is not much of a love.&#0160; The silly love song <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=69O4PXzAQ5Y\" target=\"_self\">That&#39;s Amore<\/a> well captures the delights of love&#39;s incipience.&#0160; But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kVrwHQ9-6ls\" target=\"_self\">fools rush in<\/a> where wise men never go\/But wise men never fall in love\/so how are they to know?<\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/12\/conquer-desire-or-misdirected-desire.html\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/134165329_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/12\/conquer-desire-or-misdirected-desire.html\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Conquer Desire or Misdirected Desire?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage is an excellent cure for infatuation. It is also a test whether the infatuation was something more. If the marriage lasts and deepens, then it was; if not, then it wasn&#39;t. To be infatuated is to be rendered fatuous, silly.&#0160; Not that infatuation is all bad.&#0160; A love that doesn&#39;t begin with it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/25\/a-cure-for-infatuation-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Cure for Infatuation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410","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=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}