{"id":11205,"date":"2016-01-14T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=11205"},"modified":"2016-01-14T09:47:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:47:39","slug":"a-definition-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2016\/01\/14\/a-definition-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Definition of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1977-Oct-Anne-Hyatt-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Actually this photo was taken about ten years into our marriage, but still qualifies as “the early years.” It’s in the book.<\/h6>\n

Five-year-old Justine asked me recently how Anne and I came together and married. Our granddaughter is very precocious, of course, but I thought her a bit young for such curiosity.<\/p>\n

I told her that first we fell in love.<\/p>\n

She asked, “How you know when you’re in love?”<\/p>\n

I told her, “It’s when you want to be with someone all the time, and when you’re not with them, you’re thinking about them.”<\/p>\n

She thought about that a moment and then said,\u00a0\u201cI know about that.”<\/p>\n

“You do?”<\/p>\n

“Yes,” she said, “That’s how it is with me and Ryder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Okay.<\/p>\n

Watch out Ryder, whoever you are.<\/p>\n

It was fifty years ago now (something we can hardly believe) Anne and I were in the throes of all this. And a month later, to the surprise of everyone including ourselves, we were married!<\/p>\n

It’s a story, one I shared a couple of years ago on this blog. Now I’m making a book. I plan to have it ready for our big anniversary, next month.<\/p>\n

It’ll be called, Our Lives Together, The Early Years<\/em><\/strong>. Here’s the Amazon description (when it comes out):<\/p>\n

A photographic review of two individuals, how they came together, fell in love, and on a week’s notice, married. Then began the adventures and travels and attempts to find meaningful occupation, happiness, and ultimately meaning itself. Covers their childhood (briefly), their young adult years, and up through the fifth year of their marriage\u2013and the birth (at home) of their first child. Full of charm, creativity, and many candid pictures.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, that’s a teaser. In the meantime, I may share bits of that here on the blog. Let me know if you think that’s a good idea.<\/p>\n

Meantime, pray for Justine. I’m thinking she’s a little too precocious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Justine asked about love, I thought I came up with a pretty good definition . . . which leads me to announce our next book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11205"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11216,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205\/revisions\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}