{"id":2684,"date":"2010-07-06T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T03:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2010-07-06T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T03:38:15","slug":"i-wanna-know-what-love-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2010\/07\/06\/i-wanna-know-what-love-is\/","title":{"rendered":"I wanna know what love is"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear, earnest Leah ignited a firestorm on her Facebook page the last couple days when, after posting a picture of Emmett and professing her undying love for the child, she received a comment on said picture from a friend who opined that the love a parent has for a child is a unique kind of love, unattainable to childless people.
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\nWhether you believe such a claim, my personal experience suggests that having a child does some major stuff to one’s heart. And to one’s head. And to all the other parts, too. My take has been that the parent-child relationship, even in such high beings as humans, transcends “love.” Love is a word we use to describe the complex and profound emotional and physical sensations we have when we’ve created another life.<\/p>\n

Lord knows I’ve written around this subject here before<\/a>. And I’ve managed to do so without offending too many people, at least AFAIK. But I’m fairly comfortable coming right out and saying that I had about as much luck understanding what it’s like having a kid before<\/em> I had a kid as I did understanding what it’s like to go to the moon. And I’d seen Apollo 13 and<\/em> The Right Stuff!<\/p>\n

So call it love if you like. Call that winning lottery ticket God’s will. Now you know why David Byrne encouraged us all to stop making sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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