{"id":3931,"date":"2025-11-04T18:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:21:22","slug":"count-the-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/?p=3931","title":{"rendered":"Count the Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3931\" class=\"elementor elementor-3931\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c237aa0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5c237aa0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76fe8e8b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"76fe8e8b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Count the Cost<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f1df241 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3f1df241\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30f29ffa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"30f29ffa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When a Honduran couple wants to get married it\u2019s going to be costly.\u00a0 The only recognized marriage is through the government.\u00a0 In Honduras, the couple has to go to the local municipality office with birth certificates from their place of birth.\u00a0 Some have to travel by bus a couple of days to obtain the birth certificate.\u00a0 Once they have their documents and go to the local municipality the couple will come away legally married regardless of whether the couple has a church wedding or not.\u00a0 This is the only recognized wedding ceremony.\u00a0 It will cost the couple $335.00.\u00a0 That might not sound like a lot of money, but let me put this into perspective.\u00a0 The Honduran mimumum wage is about $2.00\/Hour.\u00a0 That means the cost equates to an entire <\/span><b>month\u2019s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> salary.\u00a0 Remember, if they have to travel somewhere to get their birth certificate, the cost goes way up.\u00a0 To make matters worse, most workers don\u2019t even earn the full minimum wage.\u00a0 As I thought about this and considered what to think about it, I realized that the Bible verses in Romans 13:1-2 is applicable\u00a0 saying, \u201cLet every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.\u201d\u00a0 My perspective is that marriage for the underemployed is achievable, but requires a lot of resources.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count the Cost When a Honduran couple wants to get married it\u2019s going to be costly.\u00a0 The only recognized marriage is through the government.\u00a0 In Honduras, the couple has to go to the local municipality office with birth certificates from their place of birth.\u00a0 Some have to travel by bus a couple of days to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3953,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}