{"id":3070,"date":"2010-01-26T20:29:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T01:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2010-01-26T20:29:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T01:29:51","slug":"repost-philippines-renewable-marriage-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/26\/repost-philippines-renewable-marriage-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:: \u00bb Philippines: \u201cRenewable Marriage Bill\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This law is stupid, the problem is that there is no divorce law, or that annulment is too expensive. This law is wrong in so many levels.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A partylist group in the Philippines wants to introduce a law that would put a ten-year expiration date on marriage contracts. The unique proposal is the group\u2019s answer to lengthy and expensive annulment proceedings in the country. The Catholic-dominated Philippines does not have a divorce law.<br \/>\nAccording to the group, the \u201cRenewable Marriage Bill\u201d would \u201cspare incompatible couples the expense of lengthy legal proceedings before their marriages are annulled.\u201d The group added that a marriage contract \u201cshould be just like a passport or driver\u2019s license. If we are not interested to renew it, then it expires.\u201d<br \/>\nMore than 500,000 marriages are administered by the Catholic Church every year with less than 10 percent getting annulled and reported.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2010\/01\/26\/philippines-%e2%80%9crenewable-marriage-bill%e2%80%9d\/\">Global Voices Online \u00bb Philippines: \u201cRenewable Marriage Bill\u201d<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This law is stupid, the problem is that there is no divorce law, or that annulment is too expensive. This law is wrong in so many levels. A partylist group in the Philippines wants to introduce a law that would put a ten-year expiration date on marriage contracts. The unique proposal is the group\u2019s answer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/26\/repost-philippines-renewable-marriage-bill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:: \u00bb Philippines: \u201cRenewable Marriage Bill\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[10,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-better-class-of-politician","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}