{"id":23543,"date":"2016-02-16T19:37:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/As-worldbuilders-we-need-to-bear-in-mind-that-the-way-that-seems-right-and-natural-to-us-today-is-the-current-point"},"modified":"2016-02-16T19:37:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:37:40","slug":"as-worldbuilders-we-need-to-bear-in-mind-that-the-way-that-seems-right-and-natural-to-us-today-is-the-current-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/02\/16\/as-worldbuilders-we-need-to-bear-in-mind-that-the-way-that-seems-right-and-natural-to-us-today-is-the-current-point\/","title":{"rendered":"As worldbuilders, we need to bear in mind that the way that seems right and natural to us today is the current point&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>As worldbuilders, we need to bear in mind that the way that seems right and natural to us today is the current point in a long and continuing evolution, and not the way things have always been among all right-thinking people.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which isn&#8217;t to say that I don&#8217;t think the way my marriage works is great: legal equality, mutual respect and affection, freely chosen by the partners. It&#8217;s just not how marriage tended to work historically. Even my wife&#8217;s grandparents married, as far as we can tell, largely for pragmatic reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/articles\/how-romance-wrecked-traditional-marriage\/\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/articles\/how-romance-wrecked-traditional-marriage\/<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        As worldbuilders, we need to bear in mind that the way that seems right and natural to us today is the current point&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/02\/16\/as-worldbuilders-we-need-to-bear-in-mind-that-the-way-that-seems-right-and-natural-to-us-today-is-the-current-point\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}