{"id":13580,"date":"2009-07-22T23:57:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T22:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/07\/23\/1401\/"},"modified":"2009-07-22T23:57:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T22:57:37","slug":"getting-married-at-your-childs-baptism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/getting-married-at-your-childs-baptism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting married at your child&#039;s baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/696965300\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1426\/696965300_7588063306_m_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/696965300\/\">The newly-wed couple<br \/>and their newly-christened daughter<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I just read in The Times that the Church of England is now introducing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article6723911.ece\">wedding-cum-baptism ritual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Denmark that is entirely commonplace, and I mentioned my surprise to Phyllis that this should be anything new.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, it is entirely new over here, and the Danish practice is very strange, because the Church is supposed to say that you should marry before you even conceive a child, let alone give birth to it and baptise it.<\/p>\n<p>The headline of the article in The Times is quite amusing, btw.  It could be read as if kids would now automatically get christened at the time of their parents&#8217; wedding, in the same way as Anna became a Danish citizen when I married Phyllis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly-wed coupleand their newly-christened daughter Originally uploaded by viralbus I just read in The Times that the Church of England is now introducing a wedding-cum-baptism ritual. In Denmark that is entirely commonplace, and I mentioned my surprise to Phyllis that this should be anything new. According to her, it is entirely new over here, and the Danish practice is very strange, because the Church is supposed to say that you should marry before you even conceive a child, let alone give birth to it and baptise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}