{"id":2109,"date":"2004-02-17T20:58:36","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T00:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/02\/17\/boy-marries-dog\/"},"modified":"2004-02-17T20:58:36","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T00:58:36","slug":"boy-marries-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/17\/boy-marries-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Marries Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2696'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/boydog.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"250\" align=\"left\"><em>We<br \/>\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/18#a1835\">warned<br \/>\n        about this<\/a> happening.&nbsp; First, gay marriages.&nbsp; Next,<br \/>\n        people want to marry their pets, imaginary friends, inflatable companions.&nbsp;Where<br \/>\n        do you draw the line? My roommate married a dog, but she actually looked<br \/>\n        quite attractive on her wedding day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Perhaps a constitutional ammendment<br \/>\n          IS in order, but with a special dispensation for cases like<br \/>\n          this, where<br \/>\n          there<br \/>\n          is a<br \/>\n          legitimate and reasonable fear of the &#8216;evil eye&#8217; involved. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>A tribal priest in eastern India has married a five year old boy to<br \/>\n          a dog to keep evil spirits away from him and his family.<\/p>\n<p>        Bonjh Gope conducted the marriage of Samir Mudiya to a dog on the concluding<br \/>\n          day of a three day tribal festival at Kuluptanaga in Jharkhand state.<\/p>\n<p>        The Press Trust of India reports that guests who came to see the &quot;newly<br \/>\n          wed couple&quot; danced to drum beats and were served home brewed beer<br \/>\n          and local delicacies.<\/p>\n<p>        The groom&#8217;s father Shanbabu claimed that four such marriages had taken<br \/>\n          place this year.<br \/>\n        It is reported he said he believed &quot;such marriages would keep<br \/>\n          the boy, the family as well as society at large away from the evil<br \/>\n          eye.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>        A police spokesman said: &quot;We have never heard of such a case.<br \/>\n          We will have to seek legal opinion before taking action.&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.mainetoday.com\/apwire\/D80CHC700-28.shtml\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_866950.html?menu=news.quirkies\">Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We warned about this happening.&nbsp; First, gay marriages.&nbsp; Next, people want to marry their pets, imaginary friends, inflatable companions.&nbsp;Where do you draw the line? My roommate married a dog, but she actually looked quite attractive on her wedding day. Perhaps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/17\/boy-marries-dog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}