{"id":208,"date":"2015-04-24T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2015-04-24T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T16:11:47","slug":"the-way-things-should-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"The Way Things Should Be Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I just read an article about a school district in Hamilton, Ontario that&#8217;s raising money to provide Muslim girls with special athletic hijabs designed to stay in place without pins.These hijabs are pretty expensive (around $40 a pop). But you know what? So are football helmets and catcher&#8217;s gear and wrestling mats. And when was the last time you heard of a school saying they didn&#8217;t want to pay for those?<\/p>\n<p>I. Love. This.<\/p>\n<p>Because instead of getting hung up on silly arguments or artificial hangups, these people are simply saying: EVERY GIRL WHO WANTS TO PLAY GETS TO PLAY. Period. End of story. <\/p>\n<p>So thank you, wonderful Hamilton folks, for getting it. <\/p>\n<p>You guys rock.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news-story\/5569477-levelling-the-playing-field-for-muslim-girls\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just read an article about a school district in Hamilton, Ontario that&#8217;s raising money to provide Muslim girls with special athletic hijabs designed to stay in place without pins.These hijabs are pretty expensive (around $40 a pop). But you know what? So are football helmets and catcher&#8217;s gear and wrestling mats. And when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlatham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}