{"id":780,"date":"2008-04-25T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2008-04-25T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T11:56:00","slug":"vroom-vroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/04\/25\/vroom-vroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Vroom Vroom&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SBG599wUZBI\/AAAAAAAABUk\/UeDcrvjbf2w\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SBG599wUZBI\/AAAAAAAABUk\/UeDcrvjbf2w\/s200\/images.jpeg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Rushing off to catch a plane, but some quick news tidbits to share before I go, courtesy of Rebekah S:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/columnist\/brennan\/2008-04-23-Brennan_N.htm\"><br \/>Girl racers in USA Today:<\/a> They thrive in the vast proving ground of the hugely popular sport of auto racing, where girls learn to drive by the age of 5 and go from zero to 80 by the age of 12. The vehicles they are racing are go-karts, not cars, but they are driving nonetheless. For them, the phrase &#8220;woman driver&#8221; is not another era&#8217;s term of derision. It&#8217;s simply the job title they covet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/23\/business\/23transcript.html?ex=1366689600&amp;en=d48539a0e0f4d5bf&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">40+ women in NY Times:<\/a> Interview with some boldface names about their new Internet company, Women on the Web, or wowOwow.com. The site, a dishy, uncensored, freewheeling version of The View is their effort to create an online forum for women over 40 interested in smart discussions.  (Oh my gosh &#8211; that&#8217;s almost me)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/23\/AR2008042303379.html\">FMLA in Washington Post<\/a>: This year marks the 15th anniversary of the landmark Family and Medical Leave Act, which made it possible for many workers to take unpaid job-protected time off to care for their newborn children or sick relatives. But instead of celebrating, workers&#8217; rights advocates and the Bush administration are battling over what would be the most sweeping revisions ever to the law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117984553.html?categoryid=3045&amp;cs=1&amp;nid=2562\">Variety<\/a>: GLAAD Media Awards reality TV nominees &#8211; Gay Characters Just Another Slice Of Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rushing off to catch a plane, but some quick news tidbits to share before I go, courtesy of Rebekah S: Girl racers in USA Today: They thrive in the vast proving ground of the hugely popular sport of auto racing, where girls learn to drive by the age of 5 and go from zero to [&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":[8959,21395,129,176],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-families","tag-girls","tag-media","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}