{"id":43973,"date":"2014-05-08T02:09:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_jim_sollisch-we_talk_a_lot_about_weddings_when_we_should_be_talking_ab\/"},"modified":"2014-05-08T02:09:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:09:29","slug":"csm_jim_sollisch-we_talk_a_lot_about_weddings_when_we_should_be_talking_ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43973","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) Jim Sollisch&#8211;We talk a lot about weddings \u201d\u201c when we should be talking about marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be 2.3 million weddings this year in the United States. And it seems my wife and I were invited to half of them, not including the three weddings we\u2019ll be attending in the next 18 months as parents of the bride or groom. Yes, three of our five children are engaged.<\/p>\n<p>With the stakes so high \u201d\u201c half of marriages still end in divorce \u201d\u201c we\u2019ve been thinking a lot about marriage, even though the conversations around us are all about weddings (venues, photographers, invitations).<\/p>\n<p>Just last weekend, we were at a wedding where the minister addressed the married couples in the congregation directly, asking us to consider renewing our vows today, to recommit to each other as we move forward together on our journey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2014\/0502\/We-talk-a-lot-about-weddings-when-we-should-be-talking-about-marriage\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be 2.3 million weddings this year in the United States. And it seems my wife and I were invited to half of them, not including the three weddings we\u2019ll be attending in the next 18 months as parents<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43973\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-marriage-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43973","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=43973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}