{"id":3709,"date":"2014-04-17T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2020-05-16T14:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T19:36:50","slug":"conscious-uncoupling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3709","title":{"rendered":"CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" class=\"irc_mut\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/okay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gwyneth-chris-z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and musician Chris Martin recently announced they are &#8220;consciously uncoupling.&#8221; \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Apart from the euphemism for divorce, my wife had an interesting insight. \u00a0The word <em>couple<\/em>, though used by many of us Christians, is not a great word for depicting marriage. Sure, we are still two persons coming together, but Christians hold to the union of one flesh. \u00a0The word couple focuses too much to two distinct persons.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and musician Chris Martin recently announced they are &#8220;consciously uncoupling.&#8221; \u00a0 Apart from the euphemism for divorce, my wife had an interesting insight. \u00a0The word couple, though used by many of us Christians, is not a great word for depicting marriage. Sure, we are still two persons coming together, but Christians hold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8708,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/8708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}