{"id":52032,"date":"2015-10-12T05:32:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T05:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_modern_love_they_consciously_uncoupled_before_conscious_uncoupling_was_\/"},"modified":"2015-10-12T05:32:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T05:32:14","slug":"nyt_modern_love_they_consciously_uncoupled_before_conscious_uncoupling_was_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52032","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Modern Love? They consciously uncoupled before conscious uncoupling was a thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My parents announced their divorce calmly during our first and only family meeting. I was 14 and felt as if I had been punched in the face. There had been none of the clues leading up to it that my friends had described before their parents\u2019 divorces. No screaming or dishes being thrown. Everything was quiet.<\/p>\n<p>My parents said they loved my sister and me very much, that this wasn\u2019t our fault. Later, when I grilled them separately, asking why, they each told me they never gave enough time to their relationship, that it was always all about the family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it is our fault,\u201d\u009d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, no,\u201d\u009d they assured me. They loved my sister and me and loved being parents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/11\/fashion\/the-original-conscious-uncouplers.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents announced their divorce calmly during our first and only family meeting. I was 14 and felt as if I had been punched in the face. There had been none of the clues leading up to it that my<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52032\">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":[39,50,209,175,101,168,114,98,177,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52032","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=52032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}