{"id":99,"date":"2006-03-03T19:13:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T23:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/03\/it-aint-easy\/"},"modified":"2006-03-03T19:18:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T23:18:18","slug":"it-aint-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/03\/it-aint-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"It ain&#8217;t easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These &#8216;happy&#8217; posts are easy.  Essays about sexism, feminism, culture, i.e. &#8216;Issues&#8217; are easy too.  For the &#8216;happy&#8217; posts, all that&#8217;s required is making a list about my day, noting a few good things.  For an essay, I just do some research, often something I&#8217;m doing for school anyways, maybe form an opinion or take a stance, depending on the type of essay, but really, it&#8217;s all pretty academic.  I mean, it&#8217;s work, but it&#8217;s all relatively straightforward.  <\/p>\n<p>Blogging about ourselves is sometimes straightforward &#8211; like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/26\/happy-february-26-2006\/\">happy <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/time-to-be-happy\/\">posts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/23\/3-days-running-more-happy-february-23-2006\/\">from<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/more-happy-february-22-2006\/\">last <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/5-things-to-be-happy-about-feb-21-2006\/\">week<\/a>.  But sometimes, publishing a blog post puts us out on the line.  A real line.  I talked about this a bit in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/09\/dating-the-patriarchy-or-i-need-chocolate\/\">this post<\/a>, about how often do we play down our politics.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m involved in an action campaign which began through a club at school.  The backlash has been personal and at times overwhelming.  I&#8217;ve debated writing about it but fear potential backlash on my own ground.  Of course, without posting about it I can&#8217;t enlist the support I might get from the community of bloggers that come here to visit.<\/p>\n<p>Feminist backlash is not just some academic thing that happens to other people.  It happened to me and is happening to me still.  If I find the courage this weekend I might put up the post.  I sure could use the support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These &#8216;happy&#8217; posts are easy. Essays about sexism, feminism, culture, i.e. &#8216;Issues&#8217; are easy too. For the &#8216;happy&#8217; posts, all that&#8217;s required is making a list about my day, noting a few good things. For an essay, I just do some research, often something I&#8217;m doing for school anyways, maybe form an opinion or take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,17,12,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}