{"id":18,"date":"2006-03-09T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T17:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=18"},"modified":"2006-03-09T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T17:09:42","slug":"about-%e2%80%9csymbols-simples%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/03\/09\/about-%e2%80%9csymbols-simples%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"About \u201cSymbols simples\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

My intent yesterday, in writing this little poem \u2014 which appears in yesterday’s entry below \u2014 was to create a new symbol for “love”, in contrast to H8, which is pretty easily clear. The process started in a dream, in which I tried to do just that.
\nI hope there are enough clues in the almost-haiku to make it intelligible:<\/a><\/p>\n

the title has a bilingual quality, with the second word en fran\u00e7ais \u2014 <\/i>the fact that the word in the title is uncapitalized is a clue;
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

“LOL”, of course, means “laughing out loud”;<\/p>\n

“H8″ means “hate”;<\/p>\n

“L’0″ is the part en fran\u00e7ais \u2014 <\/i>the second symbol in it is zero, which in French <\/i>(tennis particularly) is “l’oeuf”, (the egg) or “love”.<\/p>\n

So:<\/p>\n

Laughing out loud above,<\/i><\/p>\n

What the world needs now<\/i><\/p>\n

Is not hate but love.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014 too obscure?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My intent yesterday, in writing this little poem \u2014 which appears in yesterday’s entry below \u2014 was to create a new symbol for “love”, in contrast to H8, which is pretty easily clear. The process started in a dream, in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explanatory","category-on-the-process-of-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}