{"id":34240,"date":"2023-08-23T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?page_id=34240"},"modified":"2023-08-23T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:37:51","slug":"the-more-loving-one","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-more-loving-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The More Loving One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The More Loving One&#8221; is yet another of my unusual love stories. But then &#8230; aren&#8217;t they all?<\/p>\n<p>The title  comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/more-loving-one\">W. H. Auden&#8217;s poem<\/a> of the same name, which includes the passage:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If equal affection cannot be,<br \/>\nLet the more loving one be me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is it science fiction? Is it fantasy? Is it both? I&#8217;ve leave that for you to judge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The More Loving One&#8221; was <a href=\"https:\/\/protonreader.com\/two_edelman\/\">published<\/a> in December 2022 in the second issue of <em>Proton Reader<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The More Loving One&#8221; is yet another of my unusual love stories. But then &#8230; aren&#8217;t they all? The title comes from W. H. Auden&#8217;s poem of the same name, which includes the passage: &#8220;If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.&#8221; Is it science fiction? Is it fantasy? Is it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34260,"parent":13,"menu_order":108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34240","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34262,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34240\/revisions\/34262"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}