{"id":401,"date":"2007-11-06T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2007-11-06T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T15:08:00","slug":"too-cool-for-daring-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/11\/06\/too-cool-for-daring-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Cool for Daring Book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RzB3denIMdI\/AAAAAAAAAoc\/AbJbKBfKOjU\/s1600-h\/5104sZilv4L-1._AA240_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RzB3denIMdI\/AAAAAAAAAoc\/AbJbKBfKOjU\/s200\/5104sZilv4L-1._AA240_.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m not a mom of a girl, so perhaps my take on this is off.  But I really dig <a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Daring Book for Girls<\/span><\/a>.  Though that&#8217;s just the point, argues <a href=\"http:\/\/warner.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/01\/seventies-something\/\">Judith Warner at Domestic Disturbances<\/a> (and, echoing her, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/broadsheet\/2007\/11\/02\/girls\/index.html?source=rss&amp;aim=\/mwt\/broadsheet\">Tracy Clark-Flory at Broadsheet).<\/a> What&#8217;s cool to Gen Xers is too cool for school to their progeny.  But I&#8217;m voting girls will dig it.  Has anyone test-driven the book with girls yet?  I&#8217;d be eager to hear the results!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, judge for yourself.  There&#8217;s an excerpt from the book and a video of the authors&#8217; Today Show appearance <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21548376\/\">here<\/a>.  And a listing of other upcoming appearances and events <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringbookforgirls.com\/events\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ll be posting more fully on my response to the book in December, as part of the book&#8217;s blog tour.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a mom of a girl, so perhaps my take on this is off. But I really dig The Daring Book for Girls. Though that&#8217;s just the point, argues Judith Warner at Domestic Disturbances (and, echoing her, Tracy Clark-Flory at Broadsheet). What&#8217;s cool to Gen Xers is too cool for school to their progeny. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21395],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-girls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","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\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}