{"id":578,"date":"2006-01-05T06:20:23","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T11:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=578"},"modified":"2006-01-05T06:20:23","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T11:20:23","slug":"a-cautionary-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"A Cautionary Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8217;70&#8217;s, author\/housewife Terry Martin Hekker made quite a stir on the talk show circuit with her anti-feminist, pro-homemaker\/stay-at-home-Mom opinions.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nOn January 1 of this year, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/01\/01\/fashion\/sundaystyles\/01LOVE.html?pagewanted=print\" target=\"_blank\">column<\/a> in the New York Times, she reported that on her 40th anniversary, her husband served her with divorce papers.<br \/>\nMs. Hekker is now sorry she didn&#8217;t take advantage of her opportunities to continue her education instead of pouring her energies into volunteer work.<br \/>\nHer words: <em>For a divorced mother, the harsh reality is that the work for which you do get paid is the only work that will keep you afloat.<\/em><br \/>\nWould she consider writing a sequel?  Apparently not:<br \/>\n<em>My anachronistic book was written while I was in a successful marriage that I expected would go on forever. Sadly, it now has little relevance for modern women, except perhaps as a cautionary tale: never its intended purpose. So I couldn&#8217;t imagine writing a sequel. But my friend Elaine did come up with a perfect title: &#8220;Disregard First Book.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8217;70&#8217;s, author\/housewife Terry Martin Hekker made quite a stir on the talk show circuit with her anti-feminist, pro-homemaker\/stay-at-home-Mom opinions.<\/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-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}