{"id":10408,"date":"2015-12-02T23:19:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T23:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=10408"},"modified":"2015-12-02T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T23:20:00","slug":"you-can-reach-the-light-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/you-can-reach-the-light-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"you can reach the light switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>keep thinking about this &#8212; more from gloria steinem&#8217;s fresh air <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=451862822\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>STEINEM: &#8230;I realize more now that I&#8217;m past that stage, that 50 was a very difficult birthday because it was the end of the central years of life. But 60, which I was just entering when I was speaking then, was like entering, as I was saying, a new country. And that means that all the demands of gender that spread from something like 12 to something like 50 and are something of a prison sometimes are gone, and suddenly you&#8217;re free.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my comparison now. Remember when you were 9 or 10, and you were this independent, little girl climbing trees and saying, I know what I want. I know what I think and so on. That was before gender descended for most of us, as Carol Gilligan has pointed out in her work. After 50, you&#8217;ve theoretically, according to society, had kids, raised them, so your gender role is over. Ironically, I found by 60, you&#8217;re free again. So you&#8217;re the same person you were at 9 or 10 only now you have your own apartment. You can reach the light switch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>keep thinking about this &#8212; more from gloria steinem&#8217;s fresh air interview: STEINEM: &#8230;I realize more now that I&#8217;m past that stage, that 50 was a very difficult birthday because it was the end of the central years of life. But 60, which I was just entering when I was speaking then, was like entering, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10411,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions\/10411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}