{"id":503,"date":"2012-09-11T09:18:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=503"},"modified":"2012-09-11T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:18:58","slug":"love-vs-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/heavy-stuff\/love-vs-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Love vs. Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In humanity, the theme of opposing forces appears often.\u00a0 Is this because we\u2019re drawn to conflict?\u00a0 Or perhaps because we hold Newton\u2019s third law, \u201cTo every action there is an equal and opposite reaction\u201d, to hold greater truth than its description of the purely physical?<\/p>\n<p>Though I\u2019m inclined to believe it\u2019s both, the second holds an elegant truth the first lacks.\u00a0 Look at love versus hate.<\/p>\n<p>Love know no limits, it expands the heart.\u00a0 You can\u2019t run out of love, there\u2019s always enough left to wrap another within its warmth.\u00a0 The more love you give, the more you have to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Hate is compulsive and single-minded.\u00a0 It focuses you, limiting you by shriveling your heart.\u00a0 The more intensely you hate, the less capacity you have for compassion and love.<\/p>\n<p>Equal, and opposite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In humanity, the theme of opposing forces appears often.\u00a0 Is this because we\u2019re drawn to conflict?\u00a0 Or perhaps because we hold Newton\u2019s third law, \u201cTo every action there is an equal and opposite reaction\u201d, to hold greater truth than its description of the purely physical? Though I\u2019m inclined to believe it\u2019s both, the second holds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heavy-stuff","category-snip-its"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}