{"id":27875,"date":"2013-10-11T19:17:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T00:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=27875"},"modified":"2013-10-11T22:02:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T03:02:04","slug":"international-day-of-the-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/international-day-of-the-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of the Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Malala-Yousafzai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-27877\" alt=\"Malala-Yousafzai\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Malala-Yousafzai-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Today is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/news\/international-day-of-the-girl-2013\/\">International Day of the Girl<\/a>. \u00a0Yesterday, the Deseret News devoted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865588166\/Oct-11-marks-International-Day-of-the-Girl.html\">article to it<\/a>\u00a0but 24 hours later, no one had yet commented. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/765610887\/UN-sponsors-first-annual-Day-of-the-Girl-promotes-awareness-of-forced-child-marriages.html?pg=all\">Another article<\/a> appeared today, but as of now, no comments yet. Perhaps there is no need to voice support for something everyone agrees on? Still, worldwide, tens of thousands of children have been conducting activities to support education for girls, following the lead of\u00a0Malala Yousafzai. Anything to report from Utah?<\/p>\n<p>Other themes of the Day deal with forced girl marriages and teen pregnancies due to poverty and lack of sexual education. \u00a0In my home country, Belgium, teen pregnancy is very rare. So, for the campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planbelgie.be\/campagne-alle-meisjes-naar-school#film\">a short film was made about a 14-year old pregnant girl <\/a>who\u00a0comes to a Belgian school. I thought it would be interesting to share it on this International Day of the Girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the International Day of the Girl. \u00a0Yesterday, the Deseret News devoted an article to it\u00a0but 24 hours later, no one had yet commented. Another article appeared today, but as of now, no comments yet. Perhaps there is no need to voice support for something everyone agrees on? Still, worldwide, tens of thousands of children have been conducting activities to support education for girls, following the lead of\u00a0Malala Yousafzai. Anything to report from Utah? Other themes of the Day deal with forced girl marriages and teen pregnancies due to poverty and lack of sexual education. \u00a0In my home country, Belgium, teen pregnancy is very rare. So, for the campaign a short film was made about a 14-year old pregnant girl who\u00a0comes to a Belgian school. I thought it would be interesting to share it on this International Day of the Girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":27877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Malala-Yousafzai.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27875"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27883,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27875\/revisions\/27883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}