{"id":1424,"date":"2008-12-31T17:45:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T22:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2008-12-31T17:45:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T22:45:52","slug":"what-a-day-for-a-daydream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/12\/31\/what-a-day-for-a-daydream\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Day for a Daydream&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn1.google.com\/images?q=tbn:tzlNP9JrWs9zoM:http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/81\/A_woman_thinking.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Well, actually, what a day for reflecting!  The life unexamined is hardly worth living, right?  So having caught the spirit from myriad friends and loved ones (especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.85broads.com\/public\/article\/14212\">this one<\/a>), I decided to record:<\/p>\n<p>2008 was the year I got married.  It was also the year my two grandmothers passed away.<\/p>\n<p>2008 was the year this blog went &#8220;group,&#8221; turning into<a href=\"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1417\"> a vibrant public forum for feminist critique.<\/a> It was the year I gave public lectures about feminism at 12 colleges, taught 13 writing workshops and series, consulted with myriad women&#8217;s research organizations, became a writing coach, joined my first Board.<\/p>\n<p>It was the year that I learned having a child would not come so easily, the year Marco and I together adopted a cat.<\/p>\n<p>It was the year we elected Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 And so, so much more.<\/p>\n<p>With hope and deep gratitude, optimism and wonder, I&#8217;m ready for 2009.  May it be a happy, healthy, prosperous, gentle, kind, wonderful, love-filled year for all those in the GWP community&#8230;and all those far beyond.<\/p>\n<p>(More in this vein&#8211;because I just couldn&#8217;t seem to stop&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.85broads.com\/public\/article\/14214\">over at 85 Broads<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, actually, what a day for reflecting! The life unexamined is hardly worth living, right? So having caught the spirit from myriad friends and loved ones (especially this one), I decided to record: 2008 was the year I got married. It was also the year my two grandmothers passed away. 2008 was the year this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}