{"id":2940,"date":"2011-08-05T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2011-08-05T11:50:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T16:50:41","slug":"mama-wpen-updates-from-my-new-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2011\/08\/05\/mama-wpen-updates-from-my-new-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"MAMA W\/PEN: Updates from My New Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6024\/6012134912_c822750468_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/>A number of folks chided me for not including a link to the opEd when I wrote about <em>process<\/em> of writing that oped here last month for CNN.com.\u00a0 Er, whoops.\u00a0 So here it is!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/OPINION\/07\/01\/siegel.bachmann.palin\/index.html?iref=allsearch\">Bachmann, Palin and a New Season for Sexism.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m on it, it&#8217;s been a quite a week for a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theopedproject.org\">OpEd Project<\/a> alums who are also writing opEds:<\/p>\n<p>*Tera Hunter, a historian at Princeton this spring, ran an opEd in the <em>New York Times<\/em> this week &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/02\/opinion\/putting-an-antebellum-myth-about-slave-families-to-rest.html?_r=1\">Putting an Antebellum Myth about Slavery to Rest<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*Meg Urry, an astrophysicist at Yale, published an opEd this week in CNN Opinion, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2011-08-02\/opinion\/urry.astro.physics_1_black-hole-maser-light-years?_s=PM:OPINION\">Heavenly Discoveries, Earthly Interventions<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A ton of GWP readers&#8211;and bloggers&#8211;are prime candidates for writing opEds.\u00a0 You can read about the kinds of things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theopedproject.org\">The OpEd Project <\/a>does with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theopedproject.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=64&amp;Itemid=77\">universities<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theopedproject.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=58&amp;Itemid=69\">nonprofits<\/a>.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re interested in bringing a seminar (or one of our longer programs) to your campus or organization, please email me at deborah[at]theopedproject[dot]org.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to work with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of folks chided me for not including a link to the opEd when I wrote about process of writing that oped here last month for CNN.com.\u00a0 Er, whoops.\u00a0 So here it is!\u00a0 Bachmann, Palin and a New Season for Sexism. And while I&#8217;m on it, it&#8217;s been a quite a week for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21107],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mama-w-pen","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","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=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}