{"id":1273,"date":"2009-07-23T05:26:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T05:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/ok-so-im-in-london-and-a-friend-posts-this-on-my-facebook-page-and-i-should-be-telling-you-more-about-london-and-that-were\/"},"modified":"2014-03-16T02:53:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T02:53:18","slug":"ok-so-im-in-london-and-a-friend-posts-this-on-my-facebook-page-and-i-should-be-telling-you-more-about-london-and-that-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/ok-so-im-in-london-and-a-friend-posts-this-on-my-facebook-page-and-i-should-be-telling-you-more-about-london-and-that-were\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Spacey, David Letterman, Twitter and Moms Rising – All in One Post!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOK so I’m in London and a friend posts this on my Facebook page. \u00a0And I should be telling you more about London and that we’re leaving for Paris this afternoon (on theEurostar!!<\/a>) for the weekend but this is just fun.<\/p>\n

\nALSO on that same Facebook page though, from\u00a0Moms Rising<\/a>, is this:
\nKristin Rowe-Finkbeiner<\/a>\u00a0\u201c…we are now lagging behind the rest of the world in closing the gender gap. According to the World Economic Forum, the US ranks 31st of 128 countries overall, but 76th in educational attainment, 36th in health and survival, 69th in political empowerment, and 70th for wage equality for similar work. In the representation of women in our Congress, we rank 71st.”<\/p>\n

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\nReps. Maloney, Biggert reintroduce Equal Rights Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n

\nSo when you’re finished laughing at Kevin and Dave, think what we can do about these devastating numbers! I’ve just gone to work at\u00a0Causes Managing Editor at Care2<\/a>\u00a0and we have an active\u00a0women’s rights section<\/a>\u00a0there – and we all know plenty of other places to raise some hell. \u00a0Somehow, seeing it all aggregated like this makes it worse, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK so I’m in London and a friend posts this on my Facebook page. \u00a0And I should be telling you more about London and that we’re leaving for Paris this afternoon (on theEurostar!!) for the weekend but this is just fun. ALSO on that same Facebook page though, from\u00a0Moms Rising, is this: Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner\u00a0\u201c…we are … Continue reading Kevin Spacey, David Letterman, Twitter and Moms Rising – All in One Post!!!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,9,97,51,29],"tags":[496,502,503,495,497,501,438,498,472,170,499,500],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-politics","category-television","category-webtech","category-women","tag-david-letterman","tag-era","tag-eurostar","tag-facebook","tag-kevin-spacey","tag-kristin-rowe-finkbeiner","tag-london","tag-moms-rising","tag-paris","tag-twitter","tag-us-gender-gap","tag-us-rights-rank-going-down"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-kx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}