{"id":1480,"date":"2009-01-29T09:51:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T14:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2009-01-29T09:51:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T14:51:35","slug":"getting-beyond-mr-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/01\/29\/getting-beyond-mr-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Beyond &#8220;Mr. Mom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There&#8217;s been a huge spike in the number of SAHDs <\/strong>(stay-at-home-dads, for those not in the know).  From 2003-2006, the number actually rose a full 62%&#8211;that&#8217;s really high!  And this was <em>before<\/em> the current tsunami of layoffs.  I&#8217;d be so curious to see what that number is now.<\/p>\n<p>Jumping on the trend, yesterday The Today Show featured a segment called &#8220;The New Face of Mr. Mom.&#8221;  Some good stuff, but my question is this: <strong>When will a SAHD become something other than a &#8220;Mr. Mom&#8221;? <\/strong> You can watch the video here and see what you think (and let me know!):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"512\" height=\"296\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/tv\/http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etv%2Ecom%2Fvideo%2F9i8QQr%5Fh6HNzIKOBTkgahyXSEkp4l6x8%2F101%2F1091%2Fnew%2Dface%2Dof%2Dandlsquomr%2E%2Dmom%3Fo%3Dhulu\/embed\/G6BABsnW2JM5XM15s2fC9A\/1\/339\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a huge spike in the number of SAHDs (stay-at-home-dads, for those not in the know). From 2003-2006, the number actually rose a full 62%&#8211;that&#8217;s really high! And this was before the current tsunami of layoffs. I&#8217;d be so curious to see what that number is now. Jumping on the trend, yesterday The Today [&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":[131,2715,21938],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economy","tag-fatherhood","tag-worklife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","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=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}