{"id":47641,"date":"2022-08-05T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47641"},"modified":"2022-08-05T15:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T15:00:45","slug":"a-romance-with-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/08\/05\/a-romance-with-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A romance with life."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>I\u2019m looking for my twin flame.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My soulmate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The divine lid to the jar that I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My significant other half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s fun and exhilarating to believe in that stuff, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All my life I saw myself as a really romantic person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kissing in the rain, little surprise trips, secret poems on scented pillows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did all that (and more).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And loved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, well, maybe I\u2019ll do it again, one day, maybe I\u2019ll do it even more than before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It just seems that my definition of romance has shifted quite a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s much bigger now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s broader, more abstract, and way more inclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just about a specific female counterpart and violins and roses, but more in general about life as an abundant, elusive adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no specific form connected to it, and no requirements are needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a giddy feeling, actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mix of expectation and appreciation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The feeling of romance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you feel it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo by @jamie452, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m looking for my twin flame. My soulmate. The divine lid to the jar that I am. My significant other half. Haha. No I\u2019m not. But it\u2019s fun and exhilarating to believe in that stuff, that\u2019s for sure. All my life I saw myself as a really romantic person. Kissing in the rain, little surprise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[97,117,100,105,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47643,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47641\/revisions\/47643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}