{"id":278,"date":"2017-03-29T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=278"},"modified":"2017-03-29T12:44:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T16:44:27","slug":"book-of-common-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/the-poetics-of-marriage\/book-of-common-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of Common Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious about the line:&#8221;in the time of man&#8217;s innocency, signifying unto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and his church.&#8221; It seems that &#8220;innocence&#8221; is often a gendered term, referring to chastity and virginity, so I was curious about the choice to refer to\u00a0&#8220;man&#8217;s&#8221; innocency&#8221; here, and what that could signify. I also wonder about\u00a0the phrase, &#8220;mystical union,&#8221; which seems to refer both a religious\u00a0and metaphysical unification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious about the line:&#8221;in the time of man&#8217;s innocency, signifying unto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and his church.&#8221; It seems that &#8220;innocence&#8221; is often a gendered term, referring to chastity and virginity, so I was curious about the choice to refer to\u00a0&#8220;man&#8217;s&#8221; innocency&#8221; here, and what that could signify. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-poetics-of-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}