{"id":320,"date":"2013-08-26T13:17:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/2013\/08\/26\/happy-womens-equality-day\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T13:17:42","slug":"happy-womens-equality-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/2013\/08\/26\/happy-womens-equality-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Women&#8217;s Equality Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s Equality Day was established in 1971 via a joint resolution in Congress. August 26 was selected, because it commemorated the 19th Amendment passing on August 26, 1920. The 19th Amendment granted women the right to v<a href=\"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/votes_for_women.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-72\" alt=\"votes_for_women\" src=\"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/votes_for_women-198x300.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>ote. It&#8217;s hard to believe that women have only been allowed to vote in the United States for under 100 years! Women&#8217;s Equality Day does not just celebrate our right to vote. It also is a day to reflect on the efforts to achieve full equality for women in the United States &#8212; economically, socially, and legally. It is a day to remind ourselves how far we have come, but also how far we must still go. The women and men who fought for Women&#8217;s Suffrage worked tirelessly for decades, so that women would have the right to vote in the United States. We should honor them every election by casting a ballot for the candidates of our choosing &#8212; because we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s Equality Day was established in 1971 via a joint  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsconsultinginc.com\/karen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}