{"id":5905,"date":"2009-08-18T10:31:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T15:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5905"},"modified":"2009-08-18T07:53:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T12:53:35","slug":"no_love_marriag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/no_love_marriag\/","title":{"rendered":"No Love Marriage for These Puppies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming off a week where the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/homepage\/20090814_Michael_Vick_joins_Eagles.html\">Philadelphia Eagles signed Michael Vick<\/a>, the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback convicted for running a dogfighting operation, I found the following New York Times article particularly timely.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>In matrimony-mad India, where marriage is the central event of a lifetime, these posters could easily be for lovelorn, small-town bachelors, pasted up by anxious parents seeking a bride.\n\nBut the suitable girl these single fellows seek is of the furry, four-footed variety. Finding one, though, is not easy.\n\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have been searching for months, but no luck,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Kunal Shingla, who is looking for a mate for Foster, his 2-year-old basset hound. <\/blockquote>\n\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/18\/world\/asia\/18delhi.html?_r=1\">Link<\/a>.]<\/p>\n\n<p>Great, I knew matrimonials were going to the dogs.<!--more-->I have to wonder about this sentence though, &#8220;This being India, everyone also wants his or her dog to have a mate.&#8221; And this one. &#8220;Unlike backyard Indian mutts of old, these dogs, like the pampered pets of affluent Westerners, are part of the family.&#8221; My grandparents speak fondly of the dogs they grew up with as children. Surely having a canine as a treasured part of the family isn&#8217;t new to the South Asian subcontinent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming off a week where the Philadelphia Eagles signed Michael Vick, the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback convicted for running a dogfighting operation, I found the following New York Times article particularly timely. In matrimony-mad India, where marriage is the central &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/no_love_marriag\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}