{"id":11603,"date":"2012-05-02T20:13:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T12:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=11603"},"modified":"2012-05-02T20:13:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T12:13:59","slug":"balanced-view-on-premarital-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/05\/balanced-view-on-premarital-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Balanced View On Premarital Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11604\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/17.jpg?resize=157%2C206\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/17.jpg?w=196&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/17.jpg?resize=73%2C96&amp;ssl=1 73w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Buddha definitely didn&#8217;t encourage premarital sex, probably as it can lead to many problems like heartbreak when there is betrayal, indulgence, unwanted pregnancy&#8230; but he didn&#8217;t speak strongly against it either &#8211; if it&#8217;s an agreement between consenting adults &#8211; they must be grown-ups (not under guardianship, underaged or engaged with someone else) and it must be consensual (not forced). Does that make the Buddha a liberal or conservative? Neither. More of fairly on the Middle Path I would think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buddha definitely didn&#8217;t encourage premarital sex, probably as it can lead to many problems like heartbreak when there is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[513,445],"class_list":["post-11603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-middle-path","tag-sex","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}