{"id":1400,"date":"2007-09-21T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T14:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/09\/21\/i-think-shes-on-to-something\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T14:59:51","slug":"i-think-shes-on-to-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/09\/21\/i-think-shes-on-to-something\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think She&#8217;s On To Something&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly every contract we sign has an expiration date: a lease, a mortgage, a car loan, a cell phone plan. Expiration dates seem logical. They give you the legal and convenient opportunity to get out of a contract if you&#8217;re unhappy. A life long-contract under those examples would be ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>A German woman (I believe a politician, in fact) has recently proposed expiration dates to marriage. Since so many marriages end in divorce anyway, she proposes marriages have a 7 year expiration date, with the option to renew. If you&#8217;re unhappy after 7 years, the contract ends.<\/p>\n<p>I find this to be a brilliant concept. I mean, why should this contract (and marriage is essentially a contract) be any different than all of the other types? I do hope this idea catches on. I bet more people would be willing to marry (something the government would actually prefer) if people knew that there would be fewer complexities if things didn&#8217;t work out. And for those who want to marry for life, you can still do that&#8230;just renew the vows (or keep old-school style marriages available for the clueless (I mean, die-hard) romantics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly every contract we sign has an expiration date: a lease, a mortgage, a car loan, a cell phone plan. Expiration dates seem logical. They give you the legal and convenient opportunity to get out of a contract if you&#8217;re unhappy. A life long-contract under those examples would be ludicrous. A German woman (I believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}