{"id":44,"date":"2007-01-17T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2007-01-17T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T16:47:00","slug":"only-child-meets-the-wendy-williams-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/01\/17\/only-child-meets-the-wendy-williams-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Child Meets &#8220;The Wendy Williams Experience&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/Ra5GhzQNioI\/AAAAAAAAACc\/cVcAShwfZmk\/s1600-h\/wendy+ctagod+tan+dress+edited.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/Ra5GhzQNioI\/AAAAAAAAACc\/cVcAShwfZmk\/s200\/wendy+ctagod+tan+dress+edited.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Yesterday Daphne and I were guests on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewendywilliamsexperience.com\/\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Wendy Williams Experience\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> on WBLS radio \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and what an experience!  After parking us in an office with hot pink walls decorated with life-size photos of dazzling Wendy (left), the producer, Nicole, shuttled us down a hallway, opened a door, gave us headphones, and there she was, behind the mike: The queen of radio, wearing Uggs and a tiara.  <\/p>\n<p>Daphne and I fielded calls from listeners, lots of moms asking for advice on how to keep their onlies from being lonely\/spoiled.  Wendy, herself mother to an only, brought up the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153selfish woman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d stigma.  And the conversation also veered toward the subject of women \u00e2\u20ac\u0153starting later,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehmannhaupt.com\/\">Rachel Lehmann-Haupt<\/a> calls it in her forthcoming book on the subject.  Wendy has 12 million largely African American female listeners, and I wondered how the stigma of the only child seemed to them\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n<p>A serious shout out to Wendy for plugging our book so thoroughly and so graciously.  (And for being, well, Wendy!  I seriously wish I could be her when I grow up.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Daphne and I were guests on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Wendy Williams Experience\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on WBLS radio \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and what an experience! After parking us in an office with hot pink walls decorated with life-size photos of dazzling Wendy (left), the producer, Nicole, shuttled us down a hallway, opened a door, gave us headphones, and there she was, [&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":[21671],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-only-children"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}