{"id":816,"date":"2008-05-09T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2008-05-09T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T14:15:00","slug":"coming-soon-amy-richards-opting-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/05\/09\/coming-soon-amy-richards-opting-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon: Amy Richards&#8217; Opting In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SCRPhJihbhI\/AAAAAAAABY4\/Q7_ka_vbW5g\/s1600-h\/41Mv4793uSL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SCRPhJihbhI\/AAAAAAAABY4\/Q7_ka_vbW5g\/s200\/41Mv4793uSL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Last night I went to one of those fabulous book parties that remind me why I love New York (and believe me, I needed the reminder; it had been a hectic week and this city often wears me down).  The fabulousness was not the food (which was delicious) or the space (which was mind-blowing), but the people.   It was fabulousness of a feminist variety.<\/p>\n<p>The party was hosted by Gloria Steinem and in attendance were trailblazing women like Suzanne Braun Levine, Alix Cates Shulman, Joanne Edgar, Mia Herndon, and Amy&#8217;s longtime writing partner Jennifer Baumgardner, who beamed in the back as Amy was properly celebrated.   I promise to share thoughts about Amy&#8217;s book<a><span style=\"font-style: italic\"> Opting In: Having a Child without Losing Yourself<\/span><\/a> which is why we were all there, of course, in another post very soon.  But first let me just share that Gloria introduced Amy as &#8220;the smartest person I know.&#8221;  If that isn&#8217;t a compliment, I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to one of those fabulous book parties that remind me why I love New York (and believe me, I needed the reminder; it had been a hectic week and this city often wears me down). The fabulousness was not the food (which was delicious) or the space (which was mind-blowing), but [&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":[400,21328,21941],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews","tag-events","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}