{"id":10259,"date":"2013-12-18T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10259"},"modified":"2013-12-18T08:03:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T13:03:49","slug":"facebook-likes-as-a-dowry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/facebook-likes-as-a-dowry\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Likes As A Dowry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/121813_1300_FacebookLik1.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cordelia Hebblethwaite wrote about what happens when traditional values meet the social media age:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of asking the fianc\u00e9 of his daughter for a cash dowry payment, one Yemeni father is asking for 1 million Facebook likes.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a tall order for the fianc\u00e9 as Yemen only has 25 million people.<\/li>\n<li>The father explains that he&#8217;s doing this because dowries are becoming unaffordable. Other workarounds that people have used are to borrow from neighbors or to arrange for mass weddings.<\/li>\n<li>His detractors say that he simply wants to be famous as the likes are for his own Facebook page rather than his daughter&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>For his part the father says that as long as his son in law to be makes a significant effort, he may be willing to negotiate on the 1 million &#8220;price&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/blogs-trending-25414584\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/blogs-trending-25414584\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cordelia Hebblethwaite wrote about what happens when traditional values meet the social media age: Instead of asking the fianc\u00e9 of his daughter for a cash dowry payment, one Yemeni father is asking for 1 million Facebook likes. It&#8217;s a tall order for the fianc\u00e9 as Yemen only has 25 million people. The father explains that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/121813_1300_FacebookLik1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10262,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions\/10262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}