{"id":34665,"date":"2011-07-06T09:52:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T17:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34665"},"modified":"2011-07-06T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T17:52:23","slug":"why-do-i-want-to-get-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34665","title":{"rendered":"Why Do I Want To Get Married?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the adult thing to do. It&#8217;s the Jewish thing to do. It&#8217;s the expected thing.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the alternative? Go through life alone?<\/p>\n<p>I want to have children. I want regular sex and regular food. I want a clean home. I want clean clothes. I don&#8217;t want to walk out the door mismatched. <\/p>\n<p>I want to grow. I want to experience everything deep that life has to offer. <\/p>\n<p>Pain shared is half pain. Joy shared is twice joy.<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of blind spots, many of them deadly. I need a partner to gently point them out. <\/p>\n<p>I miss a lot of things without a partner. I&#8217;ll go to a dinner and I&#8217;ll miss many of the important social dynamics. <\/p>\n<p>I want to bond. I want to connect. I want to join a family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the adult thing to do. It&#8217;s the Jewish thing to do. It&#8217;s the expected thing. What&#8217;s the alternative? Go through life alone? I want to have children. I want regular sex and regular food. I want a clean home. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34665\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[27050,27053,27051,8917,27052],"class_list":["post-34665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-adult-thing","tag-blind-spots","tag-clean-clothes","tag-jewish-thing","tag-social-dynamics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34666,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34665\/revisions\/34666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}