{"id":488,"date":"2012-05-24T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/german-engagement-customs\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T12:46:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T17:46:14","slug":"german-engagement-customs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/german-engagement-customs\/","title":{"rendered":"German Engagement Customs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While doing research in a local newspaper for my ancestors in Harvard, Illinois, I found this interesting tidbit published in a 1904.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-EDV04xbpV9g\/T76iSwxRxRI\/AAAAAAAAGdI\/KLDqUUEPtmk\/German%252520Betrothel%252520Customs%2525201904-10-06%252520p8%252520c4%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"410\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;German Betrothal Customs,&#8221; (Harvard) Herald, 6 October 1904, p. 8, col. 4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Transcription:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>German Betrothal Customs.<\/p>\n<p>When a maiden is betrothed in Germany she is called \u201cbride\u201d by her sweetheart, who addresses her thus until it becomes time to call her \u201cwife.\u201d\u00a0 Immediately upon betrothal the lovers exchange rings, which, if the course of true love runs smooth, are to be worn ever afterward until death parts them.\u00a0 The woman wears her betrothal ring on the third finger of her left hand until she is married, and then it is transferred to the third finger of her right hand.\u00a0 The husband continues to wear the ring just as the wife wore hers when she was a \u201cbride,\u201d so that one can easily tell at a glance if a man be or be not mortgaged as to his affections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing research in a local newspaper for my ancestors in Harvard, Illinois, I found this interesting tidbit published in a 1904. Transcription: German Betrothal Customs. When a maiden is betrothed in Germany she is called \u201cbride\u201d by her sweetheart, who addresses her thus until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[394],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","tag-location-germanyprussia","cat-25-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-7S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}