{"id":205,"date":"2017-09-04T19:34:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T19:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quizzical-morning.flywheelsites.com\/dawnrees\/?p=205"},"modified":"2017-09-04T19:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T19:34:50","slug":"uncle-tom-was-doubtful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/2017\/09\/04\/uncle-tom-was-doubtful\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Tom was doubtful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-206\" src=\"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/381\/2017\/09\/IMG_9843-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/381\/2017\/09\/IMG_9843-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/381\/2017\/09\/IMG_9843-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/381\/2017\/09\/IMG_9843-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/>Uncle Tom was doubtful about a Humanist ceremony as he was a &#8216;church&#8217; person. Which is understandable given church, structure and family were deeply ingrained in his DNA. What a charming man he was, full of wisdom and twinkly-eyed mischief. I asked him to give me marks out of 10 and I would check in with him after the ceremony. \u00a0Which I did. \u00a0&#8220;So how was it Tom, did I do it ok for them?&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;You were bloody marvellous&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s still not church but it was all about them and it was dignified&#8221;. That was good enough for me. If Uncle Tom was happy, so was I. \u00a0 \u00a0The couple&#8217;s choices don&#8217;t always fit with their family&#8217;s preferences but there is usually a way to make it authentic with a little touch of magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncle Tom was doubtful about a Humanist ceremony as he was a &#8216;church&#8217; person. Which is understandable given church, structure and family were deeply ingrained in his DNA. What a charming man he was, full of wisdom and twinkly-eyed mischief. I asked him to give me marks out of 10 and I would check in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3217,764,3907],"tags":[11810],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanist","category-non-religious","category-wedding","tag-doubters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanist.org.uk\/dawnrees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}