{"id":2690,"date":"2010-12-01T04:27:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T04:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2010-12-01T04:27:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T04:27:07","slug":"i-wish-we-could-sometimes-love-the-characters-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=2690","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>G.K. Chesterton (via <a href=\"http:\/\/suzywire.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">suzywire<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>NO. We can. We do. This upsets me because I love stories but I love real life just as intensely. I mean, we all have bad days, but why save all your passion for make believe?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story G.K. Chesterton (via suzywire) NO. We can. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[362,501,730,1574],"class_list":["post-2690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-love","tag-stories","tag-upset","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}