{"id":54140,"date":"2017-01-11T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=54140"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:12:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:12:35","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-why-do-we-pelt-newlyweds-with-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2017\/uncommon-knowledge-why-do-we-pelt-newlyweds-with-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why Do We Pelt Newlyweds with Rice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/down-the-aisle-personalized-art?source=blog_uk_11117\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54142 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Down-the-Aisle-Personalized-Art.jpg\" alt=\"Down the Aisle Personalized Art - UncommonGoods\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the wedding celebration, full of cake, kisses, and\u2026chucking Uncle Ben\u2019s? Wedding guests participate in dozens of well-wishing traditions, from toasts to the bouquet toss, and then there\u2019s rice throwing. This peculiar\u2014and some might say cruel\u2014tradition, began with the ancient Romans, who thought it would bring newlyweds an abundance of fertility and a large family. In other words, bring on the babies! But with a lot of slipping spouses and a shifting cultural tide (not everyone wants or can have kids), couples are coming up with new celebratory send-offs\u2014sparklers, fireworks, confetti\u2014and saving their rice for a home-cooked meal for two. Did someone say curry?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/down-the-aisle-personalized-art?source=blog_uk_11117\" target=\"_blank\">Down the Aisle Personalized Art<\/a>\u00a0| $300-500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the wedding celebration, full of cake, kisses, and\u2026chucking Uncle Ben\u2019s? Wedding guests participate in dozens of well-wishing traditions,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":54142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54146,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54140\/revisions\/54146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}