{"id":17717,"date":"2020-04-02T10:23:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=17717"},"modified":"2020-04-14T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:57:11","slug":"the-way-we-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-way-we-were\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way We Were"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=maineguide_2020&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=46&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Many of tomorrow\u2019s sweet weddings share a wink with yesterday.<\/h2>\n<p><em>By Amelia Stern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was a college student in the late \u201950s, I remember my friends and I laughing hysterically at many wedding traditions that were changing and going away,\u201d says <strong>Jane Nylander<\/strong>, president emerita of <strong>Historic New England<\/strong>. \u201cBut now as a cultural historian, I cherish the traditions passed on through time. It\u2019s a unifying thread between generations and it would be a shame to forget them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wedding rites from a magic past enchant the present.<br \/>\nBy Amelia Stern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,117],"tags":[935,937,936,933,931,929,938,553,762,932,934,930],"class_list":["post-17717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wedding-guides","tag-bridal-showers","tag-david-johanson","tag-donald-soctomah","tag-elizabeth-dewolfe","tag-historic-new-england","tag-jane-nylander","tag-nelson-rarities","tag-passamaquoddy","tag-penobscot","tag-smock-wedding","tag-university-of-new-england","tag-wedding-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17745,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717\/revisions\/17745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}