{"id":1356,"date":"2009-07-04T13:09:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T13:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2009-07-04T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T13:09:11","slug":"on-match-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"On Match Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn the Chinese culture, there's a term for Match Maker, &#26376;&#19979;&#32769;&#20154; (old man under the moon). Which is derived from a Chinese mythology.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI have viewed match making as despicable since I could remember. I view match making as plainly unbiblical.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhy?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBecause when someone tries to suggest a mate for me, I am always going to think to that person &quot;how good is your OWN marriage?&quot; or &quot;you're not even married and you want me to get married?&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe same goes to those who boast about how the credit goes to them for someone else's marriage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJudge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Chinese culture, there's a term for Match Maker, &#26376;&#19979;&#32769;&#20154; (old man under the moon). Which is derived from a Chinese mythology. I have viewed match making as despicable since I could remember. I view match making as plainly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1356\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}