{"id":1883,"date":"2010-05-08T20:35:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T01:35:23","slug":"global-mama-wish-list-for-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2010\/05\/08\/global-mama-wish-list-for-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"GLOBAL MAMA: Wish List for Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span>Imagine<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>1. A morning spent reading the newspaper and drinking coffee without constant interruption from the kids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>2. A newspaper filled with stories about the new global peace: no environmental disasters, no bombs exploding, no torture, no hate crimes, no war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>3. A house overflowing with peace (no screaming fights over Lego pieces, etc.).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>4. Clean dishes.<span> <\/span>Even after pancakes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>5. Phone call from father-in-law acknowledging that nearly 20 years of political conversations have resulted in his conversion on certain points, such as the need for nationwide family-friendly policies (affordable childcare, paid parental leave, flexible work\/life policies, universal healthcare, etc.).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>6. A country with the political will to pass policies such as the ones listed above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>7. A world in which being born a girl is not a risk factor for malnourishment, hunger, neglect, discrimination, poverty, abuse, sexual violence, forced labor, trafficking, or death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>8. A world in which social inequalities are shrinking, and progress is being made toward the UN&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/millenniumgoals\/\">Millennium Development Goals<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>9. Sufficient time to play with kids, talk with husband and friends, and care for self (read, exercise, shower, write in journal, and meditate).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>10. Ability to do the above with a sense of abundance instead of stress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>And, last but not least:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>11. No BlackBerry or iPhone.<span> <\/span>All day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine 1. A morning spent reading the newspaper and drinking coffee without constant interruption from the kids. 2. A newspaper filled with stories about the new global peace: no environmental disasters, no bombs exploding, no torture, no hate crimes, no war. 3. A house overflowing with peace (no screaming fights over Lego pieces, etc.). 4. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21105],"tags":[1399,21615,3109,21938],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-mama","tag-global","tag-mothers-day","tag-motherhood","tag-worklife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","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\/1916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}