{"id":29339,"date":"2011-11-16T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_century_amy_frykholm-commodity_dating\/"},"modified":"2011-11-16T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:00:56","slug":"christian_century_amy_frykholm-commodity_dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29339","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Century) Amy Frykholm&#8211;Commodity dating?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and my marriage are not prizes, lottery tickets or possessions. I did not win or purchase him in the marketplace of courtship. She did not lose in the marketplace of life. I didn&#8217;t bargain with marriage for my career; she didn&#8217;t trade in anything. We use these metaphors all the time as if they don&#8217;t have power, yet we forget that we are talking about are humans. &#8220;Dating and mating&#8221; is only a marketplace if we consent to being commodities.<\/p>\n<p>To think outside the marketplace is tricky in our society&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christiancentury.org\/blogs\/archive\/2011-11\/commodity-dating\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and my marriage are not prizes, lottery tickets or possessions. I did not win or purchase him in the marketplace of courtship. She did not lose in the marketplace of life. I didn&#8217;t bargain with marriage for my<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29339\">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":[39,40,50,209,175,582,149,125,129,108,112,34,126,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-men","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-women","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29339","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=29339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}