{"id":1082,"date":"2008-09-08T08:22:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2008-09-08T08:22:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T13:22:29","slug":"recommended-reading-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/elections-2008\/sliming_palin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fastcheck, on the Sliming of Sarah<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/separating-palin-fact-from-palin-fiction\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pajamas Media<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/a_feminists_argument_for_mccai.html\" target=\"_blank\">From Tammy Bruce, former president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women, on RCP:<\/a><br \/>\n<i>Palin&#8217;s candidacy brings both figurative and literal feminist change. The simple act of thinking outside the liberal box, which has insisted for generations that only liberals and Democrats can be trusted on issues of import to women, is the political equivalent of a nuclear explosion.<br \/>\nThe idea of feminists willing to look to the right changes not only electoral politics, but will put more women in power at lightning speed as we move from being taken for granted to being pursued, nominated and appointed and ultimately, sworn in.<br \/>\nIt should be no surprise that the Democratic response to the McCain-Palin ticket was to immediately attack by playing the liberal trump card that keeps Democrats in line &#8211; the abortion card &#8211; where the party daily tells restless feminists the other side is going to police their wombs.<br \/>\nThe power of that accusation is interesting, coming from the Democrats &#8211; a group that just told the world that if you have ovaries, then you don&#8217;t count.<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2199362\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Palin FAQ on Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fastcheck, on the Sliming of Sarah Pajamas Media From Tammy Bruce, former president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women, on RCP: Palin&#8217;s candidacy brings both figurative and literal feminist change. The simple act of thinking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1082\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}