{"id":4898,"date":"2012-08-22T16:21:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegrrl.com\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:15:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:15:35","slug":"young-women-riot-and-older-women-give-them-the-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/young-women-riot-and-older-women-give-them-the-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Women Riot and Older Women Give Them The Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/issues\/5-reasons-why-its-important-to-keep-talking-about-pussy-riot\">5 Reasons Why It\u2019s Important to Keep Talking About Pussy Riot | xoJane<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just starting to read about Pussy Riot and find out what they are about. As I was looking at another post about them on another blog&#8230; I began to think &#8211; it&#8217;s always the young women doing the rebelling, the physical actions, the biggest voices and the most likely to be in the media.<\/p>\n<p>For a moment I felt passed by, as an older woman. Not important any more. Then, I realized how important we really are.<\/p>\n<p>My generation are the women who listen, but more than that, we are the people who give those young women a forum, a way to be heard, a place to speak from.<\/p>\n<p>We are where they cane from. We are the trail blazers, still ahead on the path, holding some of the branches out of their way.<\/p>\n<p>Just because we aren&#8217;t in the news, being thrown in jail or active in other ways, doesn&#8217;t mean we are in the background. We are a long way from becoming wallflowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/young-women-riot-and-older-women-give-them-the-forum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Young Women Riot and Older Women Give Them The Forum\"><p>5 Reasons Why It\u2019s Important to Keep Talking About Pussy Riot | xoJane. I&#8217;m just starting to read about Pussy Riot and find out what they are about. As I was looking at another post about them on another blog&#8230; I began to think &#8211; it&#8217;s always the young women doing the rebelling, the physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[869],"tags":[540,570,1215,762,763],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75230,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/75230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}