{"id":3119,"date":"2024-06-26T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T23:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2024-06-26T16:29:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T23:29:04","slug":"the-science-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2024\/06\/26\/the-science-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/boliviainteligente-A_wwo4UM-L4-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/boliviainteligente-A_wwo4UM-L4-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"344\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/boliviainteligente-A_wwo4UM-L4-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/boliviainteligente-A_wwo4UM-L4-unsplash-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The Science of Love<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I stare out<br \/>\nthe rain-stained<br \/>\nwindow<br \/>\nat green fronds<br \/>\ndoing a slow dance<br \/>\nwith wind<br \/>\nrunning its<br \/>\nwarm fingers<br \/>\nacross the soft<br \/>\ncheeks of leaves<br \/>\nstill damp from<br \/>\nbeing licked by<br \/>\nimpertinent raindrops<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nremember that<br \/>\nMr. Science<br \/>\ntaught me that<br \/>\nall these frolicking<br \/>\nflirtatious dancers<br \/>\nare really<br \/>\ntrillions of<br \/>\ninfinitesimal bits of<br \/>\nelectricity<br \/>\nnot much different<br \/>\nfrom<br \/>\nthe charged bits<br \/>\nthat form my<br \/>\nhungry eyes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">That all these<br \/>\ncharged bits<br \/>\ncan be measured by<br \/>\nthe Speed of Light<br \/>\nmultiplied by Itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But Wise Ones<br \/>\ninvite Us to<br \/>\nremember that<br \/>\nThe Light is<br \/>\nmade of Love<br \/>\nthat is<br \/>\nThe Breath of<br \/>\nAll That Is<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nremind Us that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">the only Sin is<br \/>\nto imagine there<br \/>\nis Anything not<br \/>\nmade of<br \/>\nthat Love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by boliviainteligente; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Science of Love I stare out the rain-stained window at green fronds doing a slow dance with wind running its warm fingers across the soft cheeks of leaves still damp from being licked by impertinent raindrops and remember that Mr. Science taught me that all these frolicking flirtatious dancers are really trillions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}