{"id":6194,"date":"2009-07-15T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/back-in-the-old-days\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:53:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:53:49","slug":"back-in-the-old-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/back-in-the-old-days.html","title":{"rendered":"Back in the old days…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
when you betrayed your husband and chose to get a divorce due to the fact that you were too selfish to repent, you went off covered by a suitable cloud of opprobrium.<\/p>\n
These days, when you do it, you not only can lightly remark that \u201cI would not be able to replace the romantic memory of my fellow transgressor with the more suitable image of my husband\u201d (because as Woody Allen says, \u201cThe heart wants what it wants\u201d) but you can even write pieces for extremely high-paying national mags in which you can do the full \u201cOtter\u201d from Animal House and make your perfidy and scumminess the basis for some Deep Thought like \u201cisn\u2019t the idea of lifelong marriage obsolete?<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n