{"id":4943,"date":"2012-08-05T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2017-06-28T22:52:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:52:33","slug":"what-arranged-marriages-taught-me-about-love-blogs-ncregister-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=4943","title":{"rendered":"What Arranged Marriages Taught Me About Love |Blogs | NCRegister.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/jennifer-fulwiler\/what-arranged-marriages-taught-me-about-love\">What Arranged Marriages Taught Me About Love<\/a>, Jen Fulwiler uses two different terms &#8211; arranged marriages, and arranged courtships.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if they are completely interchangeable, but I did find the article thought provoking to the extent that it describes a way of involving families in the screening process for choosing a spouse, as well as an alternate paradigm of marriage and romantic love that, while foreign to the American way of doing things, obviously has a pretty good track record in other cultures.\u00a0 It gives me something to ponder and might provide some enlightening after-dinner conversation with my three teenage daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In What Arranged Marriages Taught Me About Love, Jen Fulwiler uses two different terms &#8211; arranged marriages, and arranged courtships.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if they are completely interchangeable, but I did find the article thought provoking to the extent that it describes a way of involving families in the screening process for choosing a spouse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,116,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courtship","category-marriage","category-netties-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15127,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/15127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}