{"id":2643,"date":"2014-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2014-10-09T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:16:04","slug":"torn-love-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/torn-love-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Torn between Love and Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you had to choose between Love and Family, what would be your choice?<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video speaks volumes to the dilemmas many of us face. Whether we fall in love with someone of a different cultural, racial or religious background, we are always fearful of how members of our family or community will react when we deviate from paths we are expected to take.\u00a0 It\u2019s never an easy decision when we have to choose between two of the most important things in our lives. I say follow your heart, others will say otherwise. I leave it up for discussion. If you had to choose between love and family, what would be your choice<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/f2bcc2e7ce4a4b7743435c023bd5cf38.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6541\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/f2bcc2e7ce4a4b7743435c023bd5cf38.jpg\" alt=\"#BlackLove\" width=\"475\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/1006248_397407867026453_737010292_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/1006248_397407867026453_737010292_n.jpg\" alt=\"pure rasta love\" width=\"462\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/fc59c7b05510eb0de626894d1c029e25.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6537\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/fc59c7b05510eb0de626894d1c029e25.jpg\" alt=\"interracial couple\" width=\"620\" height=\"962\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6538\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/4c0c05a28cf215b62b259b1dacd77d4c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6538\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6538\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/4c0c05a28cf215b62b259b1dacd77d4c.jpg\" alt=\"African and Indian wedding | Found on maharaniweddings.com\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">African + Indian wedding | Found on maharaniweddings.com<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6540\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/62a69fbc5fb1381393ea128e78397d2c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6540\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/62a69fbc5fb1381393ea128e78397d2c.jpg\" alt=\" Found on munaluchibridal.com\" width=\"600\" height=\"902\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">African + Asian Couple | Found on munaluchibridal.com<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"stag-section stag-video\"><iframe title=\"JAH CURE WEDDING!\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QY0qZ_4zH0Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb2fceca36cc79012548b8586bb8c94d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6535\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb2fceca36cc79012548b8586bb8c94d.jpg\" alt=\"true love story never ends\" width=\"570\" height=\"855\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/fea1553efde6e2774d6b3e4764396deb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6542\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/fea1553efde6e2774d6b3e4764396deb.jpg\" alt=\"old Love is true love\" width=\"500\" height=\"707\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Inspired by Bob Marley\u2019s philosophy \u201cNone but ourselves can free our mind\u201d, Orijin is a unique \u201cCulture Brand\u201d connecting all African descendants together through it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/ORIJINSTORE.COM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fashion brand<\/a> and thought provoking magazine to influence our lifestyles world wide\u2026.Don\u2019t just WEAR Culture, SHARE Culture.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had to choose between Love and Family, what would be your choice? This video speaks volumes to the dilemmas many of us face.<br><a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/torn-love-family\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":2668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3534],"tags":[3803,3800,3009,3798,3523,3799],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culturally-misunderstood","tag-family","tag-ky-mani-marley","tag-love","tag-protoje","tag-rasta","tag-reggae-music"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/love.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6546,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/6546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}