{"id":20513,"date":"2010-06-22T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_dating_for_a_decade_young_adults_arent_rushing_marriage\/"},"modified":"2010-06-22T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T15:00:40","slug":"usa_today_dating_for_a_decade_young_adults_arent_rushing_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20513","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: Dating for a decade? Young adults aren&#39;t rushing marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supposedly, young adults don&#8217;t have much of an attention span \u201d\u201d except when it comes to love.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when it seems this generation of young people is giving new meaning to the words &#8220;long-term relationship.&#8221; Many are &#8220;a couple&#8221; for years, and some approach a decade of dating. They&#8217;re just shy of the altar for so long that parents and grandparents are a bit bewildered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good to get to know your partner before marrying, but one wonders how long you need?&#8221; says sociologist Andrew Cherlin, 61, of Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2010-06-22-10yearcourtship22_CV_N.htm\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supposedly, young adults don&#8217;t have much of an attention span \u201d\u201d except when it comes to love. That&#8217;s when it seems this generation of young people is giving new meaning to the words &#8220;long-term relationship.&#8221; Many are &#8220;a couple&#8221; for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20513\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,98,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-marriage-family","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}