{"id":22491,"date":"2010-10-22T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_pakistan_media_gripped_by_man_marrying_twice_in_one_day\/"},"modified":"2010-10-22T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T15:00:32","slug":"bbc_pakistan_media_gripped_by_man_marrying_twice_in_one_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22491","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Pakistan media gripped by man marrying twice in one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistani man&#8217;s solution to the age-old dilemma of whether to embark on an arranged or a love marriage has captivated the country&#8217;s media.<\/p>\n<p>Television channels have provided live coverage of Azhar Haidri&#8217;s decision to marry both women over a 24-hour period.<\/p>\n<p>At first he refused to marry the woman selected by his family since childhood because he loved someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani law allows polygamy because it interprets Islam to allow a man to have up to four wives.<\/p>\n<p>Islam is the main religion in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-south-asia-11566634\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistani man&#8217;s solution to the age-old dilemma of whether to embark on an arranged or a love marriage has captivated the country&#8217;s media. Television channels have provided live coverage of Azhar Haidri&#8217;s decision to marry both women over a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22491\">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":[39,50,42,201,426,98,155,343,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-islam","category-marriage-family","category-other-faiths","category-pakistan","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22491","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=22491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}