{"id":11426,"date":"2011-01-14T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T15:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11426"},"modified":"2011-01-14T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T15:43:45","slug":"marriage-as-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/marriage-as-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage as art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having redefined marriage to mean almost any human, <a href=\"http:\/\/arbroath.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/australian-man-marries-dog.html\" target=\"_blank\">animal<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnewsglobal.com\/man-married-mannequin\/1256.html\" target=\"_blank\">inanimate object<\/a> union in any combination, some are now on a quest to find a way of further distorting it in order to plumb <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worcesternews.co.uk\/resources\/images\/1540675\/?type=display\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"167\" height=\"353\" \/>new depths of absurdity. In this case, a homosexual man has \u201cmarried\u201d a heterosexual woman and they are calling it \u201cart\u201d; for all the meaning that it has, they might as well have called it a plate of egg and chips.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worcesternews.co.uk\/news\/8791674.He_s_gay__she_s_straight____and_they_married_for_art__video_\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CREATIVE students proved that opposites really do attract when they  took their wedding vows \u2013 and turned marriage into a work of art.<\/p>\n<p>Nora Battenberg-Cartwright, aged 21, and Paul Cartwright, 20, married  in Germany a few days after Christmas to show their commitment to each  other \u2013 artistically.<\/p>\n<p>However, while they are legally married, live together in the centre  of Worcester and are very close friends, Mrs Battenberg-Cartwright is  straight, and Mr Cartwright is gay.<\/p>\n<p>The pair, both studying fine art at the University of Worcester, decided to make themselves into an artwork as part of their coursework they   are undertaking in their second year.<\/p>\n<p>They make sure they co-ordinate their outfits every day and also make  their own clothes \u2013 including Mrs Battenberg-Cartwright\u2019s gold wedding  dress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having redefined marriage to mean almost any human, animal or inanimate object union in any combination, some are now on a quest to find a way of further distorting it in order to plumb new depths of absurdity. In this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/marriage-as-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[2167,2200],"class_list":["post-11426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage","tag-homosexuality","tag-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}