{"id":631,"date":"2014-06-24T20:21:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T08:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=631"},"modified":"2014-12-13T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T09:30:32","slug":"essays-in-love-alain-de-botton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2014\/06\/24\/essays-in-love-alain-de-botton\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays in Love &#8212; Alain de Botton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/essays-in-love.jpg\" alt=\"Essays in Love\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/essays-in-love.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/essays-in-love-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/essays-in-love-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/essays-in-love-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/essays-in-love-800x1067.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>This is a love affair narrated in almost excruciating detail by a man who thinks too much, or at least a lot more than most. As he tells the story of going about his life, meeting a woman and becoming a couple, he digresses onto diverse topics, related and unrelated. There is a lot of wisdom and understanding in what he says, and the story seems quite realistic and all too believable. It\u2019s fun to read, in the way that all de Botton\u2019s books are.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a love affair narrated in almost excruciating detail by a man who thinks too much, or at least a lot more than most. As he tells the story of going about his life, meeting a woman and becoming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2014\/06\/24\/essays-in-love-alain-de-botton\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70,4,63],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-alain-de-botton","tag-books","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}