{"id":18232,"date":"2012-12-13T23:41:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T04:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18232"},"modified":"2012-12-13T23:41:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T04:41:11","slug":"an-irritating-misquote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-irritating-misquote\/","title":{"rendered":"An irritating misquote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>\u2018Till death do us part.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It is supposed to be: <i>\u2018Till death us do part, <\/i>a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marriage_vows\" target=\"_blank\">contraction<\/a> of: <i>until death us do depart.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An older version of the final phrase is &#8220;and to obey, until death us do depart&#8221; where &#8220;depart&#8221; means &#8220;separate&#8221;. &#8220;Until death us do depart&#8221; had to be changed due to changes in the usage of &#8220;depart&#8221; in the <a title=\"Book of Common Prayer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Common_Prayer\" target=\"_blank\">Prayer Book of 1662<\/a>. In the 1928 prayer book (not authorised) and in editions of the 1662 prayer book printed thereafter &#8220;and to obey&#8221; was retained (in the 1928 book an alternative version omitted this).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Till death do us part. It is supposed to be: \u2018Till death us do part, a contraction of: until death us do depart. An older version of the final phrase is &#8220;and to obey, until death us do depart&#8221; where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-irritating-misquote\/\">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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[2287],"class_list":["post-18232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232","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=18232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}