{"id":1001,"date":"2008-07-11T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2008-07-11T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T11:20:00","slug":"get-ketubah-mikvahand-the-divorce-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/07\/11\/get-ketubah-mikvahand-the-divorce-collage\/","title":{"rendered":"Get, Ketubah, Mikvah&#8230;and the Divorce Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SHc0Iva3qqI\/AAAAAAAABww\/SaaGOt_45EA\/s1600-h\/P1010003_1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SHc0Iva3qqI\/AAAAAAAABww\/SaaGOt_45EA\/s200\/P1010003_1.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SHc0BxrRDTI\/AAAAAAAABwo\/MruTYdhhCNs\/s1600-h\/P1010002_1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SHc0BxrRDTI\/AAAAAAAABwo\/MruTYdhhCNs\/s200\/P1010002_1.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Nothing says &#8220;moving on&#8221; like the divorce collage.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, these here doubled as housewarming projects.  After having an awful experience (not a big surprise) with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Get_%28divorce_document%29\">Jewish divorce ceremony<\/a> some years back, I decided to refill the frame that had held my marriage certificate or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ketubah\">ketubah <\/a>(left) with ad-hoc art work by my dearest friends.  So I invited them over and we had a party.<\/p>\n<p>That party will be part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/gossip\/gossip.htm\">Page 6 story in this Sunday&#8217;s New York Post. <\/a> And the timing couldn&#8217;t be more perfect.  Because on Monday, Marco and I will be going down to City Hall to pick up our marriage license and officially change our names!  We are becoming the Siegel-Acevedos.  How&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic\">that <\/span>for a mouthful of fusion.   I&#8217;m staying Siegel in print.  Hey, do people still hyphenate these days, or has that already become outre? (Our thanks to the Wallace-Segalls for the inspiration&#8230;!)<\/p>\n<p>And on Thursday, I will make my first ever visit to a modern <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikvah\">Mikvah<\/a> with a friend, which, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsidemikvah.com\/\">from the pictures<\/a>, looks more like a spa.  Here&#8217;s to ritual new and old, tossed out and reclaimed and reinspired, updated and reinvented, I say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing says &#8220;moving on&#8221; like the divorce collage. Actually, these here doubled as housewarming projects. After having an awful experience (not a big surprise) with a Jewish divorce ceremony some years back, I decided to refill the frame that had held my marriage certificate or ketubah (left) with ad-hoc art work by my dearest friends. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21554],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marriage-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}