{"id":145,"date":"2013-10-31T07:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=145"},"modified":"2013-10-31T20:05:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T15:05:26","slug":"love-is-a-choice-choose-wisely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Love. Is. A. Choice &#8211; Choose Wisely!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wpid-IMG_20131030_194055.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20131030_194055.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"Love Is A Choice - So Choose Wisely\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wpid-IMG_20131030_194055.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I saw this quote recently, and I thought that it deserved to be heard: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you\u2019ll see their flaws. That\u2019s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don\u2019t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they\u2019re out of money or under pressure or hungry, for goodness\u2019 sake. Love is something different. Love is choosing to serve someone and be with someone in spite of their filthy heart. Love is patient and kind, love is deliberate. Love is hard. Love is pain and sacrifice, it\u2019s seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; The Great Kamryn<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t have said it better myself.<br \/>\nSo I won&#8217;t!<br \/>\nLove. Is. A. Choice. <\/p>\n<p>Choose Wisely! And remember that every day there is another opportunity to Play It By Ear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this quote recently, and I thought that it deserved to be heard: &#8220;The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you\u2019ll see their flaws. That\u2019s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don\u2019t last. You might think you love &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love. Is. A. Choice &#8211; Choose Wisely!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}