{"id":5697,"date":"2026-07-02T12:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:11:49","slug":"our-fortieth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/our-fortieth\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Fortieth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">                               &#8212; <em>For Nasrin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Agape, eros, caritas, and such<br \/>we known them all for forty years,<br \/>learning, without touching, how to touch<br \/>to coddle each other\u2019s wonts and fears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s mine is yours, yours is mine.<br \/>Whatever else may now elapse<br \/>we share the quiet purr of a feline\u00a0<br \/>sleeping alternatively on our respective laps. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So let me claim in stilted verse,<br \/>conceding I may yet be biased,<br \/>among love&#8217;s various impenetrable sorts \u00a0<br \/>compatibility is the highest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; For Nasrin Agape, eros, caritas, and suchwe known them all for forty years,learning, without touching, how to touchto coddle each other\u2019s wonts and fears. What&#8217;s mine is yours, yours is mine.Whatever else may now elapsewe share the quiet purr of a feline\u00a0sleeping alternatively on our respective laps. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 So let me claim &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/our-fortieth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Fortieth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions\/5711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}