{"id":1271,"date":"2017-03-07T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T14:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westminsterradio.net\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2017-03-07T14:05:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T14:05:14","slug":"proposal-package-stuart-armour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/proposal-package-stuart-armour\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal Package &#8211; Stuart Armour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Is asking your girlfriends father to marry her out of date?<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1272 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/03\/couple-802058_1280-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"couple-802058_1280\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/couple-engagement-ring-diamond-802058\/\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">One of the most stressful times in a man\u2019s life is proposing to his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>What about asking the father for his daughters hand in marriage, this can cause more anxiety and stress. Does this tradition still happen and is the tradition even relevant in modern society?<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Reid a journalist for the Metro, <a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2017\/02\/14\/if-he-asks-your-dad-before-he-asks-you-you-shouldnt-be-marrying-him-6446361\/?ito=facebook\">reported<\/a> that if your boyfriend proposes to you after asking your dad you shouldn\u2019t marry him.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca suggests that the tradition has problems and with modern times we shouldn\u2019t have to ask the father for permission.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more click the play button below.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1271-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/03\/Proposals-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/03\/Proposals-1.mp3\">https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/03\/Proposals-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Cue for the radio Feature:<\/p>\n<p>Every year hundreds of people ask the question \u2018Will you marry me?\u2019. A tradition to this question is the groom asking the soon to be father-in-law for his blessing in marrying his daughter before proposing to their partner. Stuart Armour explores the tradition and looks to see if it\u2019s outdated.<\/p>\n<p>In: Rebecca Reid a journalist&#8230;.<br \/>\nOut: &#8230;using the hashtag proposals.<br \/>\nDur: 3&#8217;25&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is asking your girlfriends father to marry her out of date? Picture: Pixabay One of the most stressful times in a man\u2019s life is proposing to his girlfriend. What about asking the father for his daughters hand in marriage, this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-digital-archive","category-first-year-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}