{"id":2461,"date":"2021-03-29T13:16:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T17:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2021-04-16T12:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:29:56","slug":"love-words-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2461","title":{"rendered":"Love Words, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love Words<\/p>\n<p>By<\/p>\n<p>Radiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He courted me forever.<\/p>\n<p>On initiation day, I finally<\/p>\n<p>proposed.\u00a0 He took my hand<\/p>\n<p>and said, \u201cYes.\u201d And we consented<\/p>\n<p>to loving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His wants were simple. Mine<\/p>\n<p>extravagant.\u00a0 I wanted everything.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted me to repeat certain<\/p>\n<p>love-words in the dark,<\/p>\n<p>and to listen to him singing.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted me to walk with him<\/p>\n<p>to his father\u2019s country by the sea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He never asked for my undivided<\/p>\n<p>attention to the exclusion of all else.<\/p>\n<p>I asked him for his, and he gave it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had no awareness of the road,<\/p>\n<p>and so, I said: \u201cTake me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He smiled, took my hand again,<\/p>\n<p>and said, \u201cYes, and you<\/p>\n<p>take me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/path-to-the-sea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2462 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/path-to-the-sea-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/path-to-the-sea-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/path-to-the-sea.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.215\" \/><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br \/><input type=\"text\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value == 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Words By Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; &nbsp; He courted me forever. On initiation day, I finally proposed.\u00a0 He took my hand and said, \u201cYes.\u201d And we consented to loving. &nbsp; His wants were simple. Mine extravagant.\u00a0 I wanted everything. He wanted me to repeat certain love-words in the dark, and to listen to him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}