{"id":179,"date":"2016-03-18T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/?p=179"},"modified":"2016-03-18T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:40:19","slug":"marriage-couples-love-financial-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/18\/marriage-couples-love-financial-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage couples love, financial stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_180\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\" wp-image-180\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/03\/Praise-Dance-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The pastor at Ward AME Church said marriage helps build black middle class wealth.\" width=\"338\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/03\/Praise-Dance-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/03\/Praise-Dance-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/03\/Praise-Dance-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/03\/Praise-Dance-2-1240x930.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/03\/Praise-Dance-2-508x381.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ward AME Church celebrates married couples as way to promote financial stability among congregants.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes marriage can signify more than just love.<\/p>\n<p>This is the case at Ward AME Church where once a year the church dedicates a Sunday service &#8212; Marriage Sunday &#8212; to celebrating married couples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe push marriage as a financial literacy tool,\u201d Rev. John Cager, pastor of Ward AME Church, said. \u201cMarriage is one of the principal wealth building tools for the middle class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Los Angeles, where Ward AME Church is located, has a large black population and many of his congregants come from lower or middle class communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a slide in African American wealth because African Americans have stopped getting married at the same rate,\u201d Cager said.<\/p>\n<p>During this year&#8217;s Marriage Sunday,\u00a0dozens of Ward AME couples were recognized. Some\u00a0husbands and wives were celebrating more than 50 years\u00a0of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Cager said\u00a0celebrating the church&#8217;s couples gives young people and single\u00a0congregants something to look forward to &#8212; long-term love and more wealth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes marriage can signify more than just love. This is the case at Ward AME Church where once a year the church dedicates a Sunday service &#8212; Marriage Sunday &#8212; to celebrating married couples. \u201cWe push marriage as a financial literacy tool,\u201d Rev. John Cager, pastor of Ward AME Church, said. \u201cMarriage is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[42,44,43,45],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}