{"id":3350,"date":"2011-03-10T22:55:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2011-03-10T22:55:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T22:55:07","slug":"deputy-marriage-commissioner-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3350","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Marriage Commissioner for a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I like about life? It is so dang unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>I was asked to solemnize a marriage ceremony in Joshua Tree.<\/p>\n<p>This is not something I have ever wished to do. Neither is it something anybody in my family has ever done. And oddly, the request did not even come from somebody I knew.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the honor is so great, and the request so sincere, that I have accepted, and I will be a Deputy of Marriage Commissioner for one day, and one day only, and that day is Monday, March 14, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>I will be pulling from a variety of sources during the wedding: my father&#8217;s recommendation of &#8220;Ten Commandments for Married Life&#8221; by Reverend Hyo Sup Choi; an e.e. cummings poem, the conventional ceremony script, and my personal words to round out the couple&#8217;s own vows.<\/p>\n<p>More details to follow. Right now, I&#8217;m off to prepare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I like about life? It is so dang unpredictable. I was asked to solemnize a marriage ceremony in Joshua Tree. This is not something I have ever wished to do. Neither is it something anybody in my family has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3350\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-some-good","category-marriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}