{"id":784,"date":"2009-02-28T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T01:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shieldsgroup.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2009-02-28T20:05:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T01:05:06","slug":"the-letter-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/28\/the-letter-of-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Letter of the Law&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Reuters Article\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090226\/od_nm\/us_teens_marriage;_ylt=ArBWZiMAEn.mIqaHpXPGlPgEtbAF\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters reports<\/a> that an Israeli girl has been married and divorced &#8212; all at the young age of 14.<\/p>\n<p>It began as a joke at school, where a 17-year-old declared the girl his wife by reciting a Jewish ritual vow before witnesses.\u00a0 In response, she received his ring.<\/p>\n<p>The Rabbinical Courts of Israel indicated that this was the consummation of marriage for the two of them and that they were man and wife.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the couple was granted a rabbinical divorce.<\/p>\n<p>That is following &#8220;the letter of the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that an Israeli girl has been married and divorced &#8212; all at the young age of 14. It began as a joke at school, where a 17-year-old declared the girl his wife by reciting a Jewish ritual vow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/28\/the-letter-of-the-law\/\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-legalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-cE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}