{"id":855,"date":"2008-05-28T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2008-05-28T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T15:17:00","slug":"running-for-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/05\/28\/running-for-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Running for Their Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SD1oUf-ECUI\/AAAAAAAABeQ\/5XMwtZ5uU8s\/s1600-h\/get_image.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SD1oUf-ECUI\/AAAAAAAABeQ\/5XMwtZ5uU8s\/s200\/get_image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On the heels of <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwithpen.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/progressives-and-popular-culture.html\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> about progressives using video and YouTube to publicize causes comes a new video from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlsgottarun.org.\/\">Girls Gotta Run Foundation<\/a>&#8212;<span class=\"textColor01\">an org that supports girls in Ethiopia by supporting their atheletism.  Research finds that girls who train to run over there are more  likely to stay in school. Girls who stay in school are better able to improve  their own lives and the lives of their families.  The athletic shoes necessary for professional  training and competition are expensive and out of reach for most of  them. So a group of artists and others who care organized<em> <\/em>to raise money to buy shoes for the girls.  You can check out the video <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-7331068598938052644&amp;hl=en\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of yesterday&#8217;s post about progressives using video and YouTube to publicize causes comes a new video from the Girls Gotta Run Foundation&#8212;an org that supports girls in Ethiopia by supporting their atheletism. Research finds that girls who train to run over there are more likely to stay in school. Girls who stay [&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-855","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\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}