{"id":5089,"date":"2011-05-15T23:01:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2011-05-15T23:05:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:05:33","slug":"love-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2011\/05\/love-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Darling Sweetheart,<\/p>\n<p>You are my avid fellow feeling. My affection curiously clings to your passionate wish.<br \/>\nMy liking yearns to your heart. You are my wistful sympathy: my tender liking.<br \/>\nYours beautifully,<br \/>\nM.U.C.*\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even with such a designer as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Turing\">Turing<\/a>, it takes more than imitation-games of consciousness to write a love letter.<\/p>\n<p>Still, isn&#8217;t there something about this letter that suggests our own, often inarticulate, longings?<\/p>\n<p>*In this instance, MADAM preferred to call herself M.U.C. (Manchester University Computer). I know how she feels.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to John for calling my attention to this bit of sweetness).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darling Sweetheart, You are my avid fellow feeling. My affection curiously clings to your passionate wish. My liking yearns to your heart. You are my wistful sympathy: my tender liking. Yours beautifully, M.U.C.* Even with such a designer as Turing, it takes more than imitation-games of consciousness to write a love letter. Still, isn&#8217;t there something about this letter that suggests our own, often inarticulate, longings? *In this instance, MADAM preferred to call herself M.U.C. (Manchester University Computer). I know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2011\/05\/love-letter\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,5,12,33,4938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-creative","category-culture","category-technology-and-science","category-language","category-semantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}