{"id":389,"date":"2012-07-06T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2012-07-06T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T22:24:00","slug":"marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about marriage. I recently read an article about marriage. This article showed that young people, in my age group and older, aren\u2019t as keen about marriage as they once were. These people studied explained that marriage then baby isn\u2019t necessarily the norm anymore. And you know what? That\u2019s a shame. Call me old-school: but I like the institution of marriage. I respect it. Marriage means you can\u2019t give up at the drop of a hat, even if sometimes that seems like the only choice. We shouldn\u2019t be degrading marriage; we should be celebrating it. Yes, divorce is all over the media and in our loved ones lives\u2019, but next time you hear divorce, think about those who actually make it. Those people are to be commended, for marriage has once again proved itself. And it will again and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about marriage. I recently read an article about marriage. This article showed that young people, in my age group and older, aren\u2019t as keen about marriage as they once were. These people studied explained that marriage &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}