{"id":63,"date":"2010-10-30T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otitijasmine.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/30\/no-games-just-love"},"modified":"2010-10-30T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T18:04:00","slug":"no-games-just-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/2010\/10\/30\/no-games-just-love\/","title":{"rendered":"No Games. Just Love."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey, all. My Facebook status for this past week was the title of this post. No games. Just love. I was thinking about how we often hide how much we really care about our loved ones, and I wonder why it&#8217;s like that. I mean, if you love someone, he\/she should know, right? Apparently not always.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">If you have to guess what you mean to a person you deeply care about, if you keep the nature and extent of your emotions under wraps, if you play games to maintain the upper hand&#8230;..it just seems pointless to me. It&#8217;s not business, it&#8217;s a friendship, a relationship. It&#8217;s personal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Put yourself out there. It&#8217;s worth the risk. Win or lose, rise or fall, acceptance or rejection, you did it anyway. You weren&#8217;t afraid to let your feelings show. If you fear the other person might not value your openness, well, there&#8217;re valid reasons for such a concern. All I know is one ought to be comfortable sharing if the object of your affection is good for you, and I&#8217;m talking about all sorts of relationships here. I won&#8217;t go near business because, yeah, it&#8217;s governed by a different set of rules. But otherwise? Let them know, people. Let them know.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><img alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"geo-post-63\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">51.045925<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">7.01922<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, all. My Facebook status for this past week was the title of this post. No games. Just love. I was thinking about how we often hide how much we really care about our loved ones, and I wonder why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/2010\/10\/30\/no-games-just-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[6,59,101],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moxie-soul-fire","category-open-heart","tag-boldness","tag-dare-2","tag-love-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otitijasmine.com\/otitijasmine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}