{"id":2633,"date":"2008-05-13T17:02:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T22:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2008-05-13T17:02:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T22:02:45","slug":"1939-marital-rating-scale-for-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/05\/1939-marital-rating-scale-for-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"1939 marital rating scale for wives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/289624050\/1939-marital-rating.html\" >1939 marital rating scale for wives<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/maritalchart.jpg\" width=\"458\" height=\"720\" alt=\"maritalchart.jpg\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\nGeorge W. Crane, MD, was a marriage counselor and wrote a syndicated national newspaper column called &#8216;The Worry Clinic.&#8217; He developed a test in the late 1930s called the Marital Rating Scale &#8212; Wife&#8217;s Chart. Here&#8217;s the fist page of the test.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The test was designed to give couples feedback on their marriages. Either husbands or wives could take the test, which rated wives in a variety of areas. For instance, if your wife &#8216;uses slang or profanity,&#8217; she would get a score of five demerits. On the other hand, if she &#8216;reacts with pleasure and delight to marital congress,&#8217; she would receive 10 merits. The test taker would add up the total number of merits and demerits to receive a raw score, which would categorize the wife on a scale from &#8216;very poor&#8217; to &#8216;very superior.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" >Boing Boing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1939 marital rating scale for wives: &#8220; George W. Crane, MD, was a marriage counselor and wrote a syndicated national newspaper column called &#8216;The Worry Clinic.&#8217; He developed a test in the late 1930s called the Marital Rating Scale &#8212; Wife&#8217;s Chart. Here&#8217;s the fist page of the test. The test was designed to give &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/05\/1939-marital-rating-scale-for-wives\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1939 marital rating scale for wives<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-Gt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}