{"id":42125,"date":"2014-01-17T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_today_rowan_williams_fairytale_wedding_pressures_putting_tragic_s\/"},"modified":"2014-01-17T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T19:00:38","slug":"christian_today_rowan_williams_fairytale_wedding_pressures_putting_tragic_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42125","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Rowan Williams: Fairytale wedding pressures putting &#39;tragic&#39; strain on marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Williams has spoken out against the trend of expensive &#8220;fantastical&#8221; weddings which he claims is threatening the future of marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a debate entitled &#8220;Marriage: Love or Law&#8221; in London, the former Archbishop of Canterbury said that the &#8220;marketisation of marriage&#8221; must be curtailed.<\/p>\n<p>He labelled the idea of &#8220;the perfect relationship crystallised in the perfect wedding day&#8221; as a farce, suggesting that it was nothing more than the product of &#8220;immense economic advertising investment in this massively fantastical experience &#8230; after which, of course, nothing is ever quite so good again&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an aspect I think of the short-term, unimaginative, emotionally unintelligent climate that sometimes we seem forced to inhabit,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/rowan.williams.fairytale.wedding.pressures.putting.tragic.strain.on.marriages\/35377.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Williams has spoken out against the trend of expensive &#8220;fantastical&#8221; weddings which he claims is threatening the future of marriages. Speaking at a debate entitled &#8220;Marriage: Love or Law&#8221; in London, the former Archbishop of Canterbury said that the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42125\">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":[39,40,175,582,149,168,98,177,129,108,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42125","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=42125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}