{"id":1089,"date":"2016-11-09T16:51:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T00:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2016-11-09T16:51:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T00:51:26","slug":"darker-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2016\/11\/09\/darker-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Darker Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, we watched Hillary Clinton`s concession speech, prefaced with the idea that you can be incredibly smart, very successful, and hard-working (and deeply flawed), and<em> still&nbsp;<\/em>experience failure on a big level &#8211; and that how you respond matters.<\/p>\n<p>After, when the class was asked what the important things that they heard were, one of our grade 6 girls raised her hand and said, &#8220;That girls still matter.&#8220;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this broke my heart.<\/p>\n<p>I`m reposting here, for truth, Michelle Obama`s speech delivered last month in response to Trump`s recurring denigration of women.<\/p>\n<p>Her words still matter &#8211; maybe matter even more, now. &nbsp;And indeed, Emma, girls still matter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJ45VLgbe_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, we watched Hillary Clinton`s concession speech, prefaced with the idea that you can be incredibly smart, very successful, and hard-working (and deeply flawed), and still&nbsp;experience failure on a big level &#8211; and that how you respond matters. After, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2016\/11\/09\/darker-days\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}