{"id":34180,"date":"2012-08-22T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sounding_like_they_discovered_something_odd_on_mars_the_ny_times_does_a_sto\/"},"modified":"2012-08-22T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T16:15:32","slug":"sounding_like_they_discovered_something_odd_on_mars_the_ny_times_does_a_sto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34180","title":{"rendered":"Sounding like they discovered something odd on Mars, the NY Times does a story on Chaste Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One challenge, [Conor] Dwyer and others said, is that abstinent singles can struggle to find close friends who empathize with their situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my friends found out I was planning on waiting until I was married, I got laughed at quite a bit,\u201d\u009d said Miki Reaume, a Christian and former Rockette at Radio City Music Hall who lived in New York for nine years before marrying in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>When she dated non-Christians, Reaume said, the topic would usually arise on the third date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then the relationship ended,\u201d\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/22\/sports\/football\/a-chaste-tim-tebow-will-have-company-in-new-york.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One challenge, [Conor] Dwyer and others said, is that abstinent singles can struggle to find close friends who empathize with their situation. \u201cWhen my friends found out I was planning on waiting until I was married, I got laughed at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34180\">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":[39,42,168,419,98,89,428,154,155,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-marriage-family","category-media","category-mormons","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34180","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=34180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}