{"id":338,"date":"2014-11-23T23:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T04:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2014-11-23T23:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T04:28:16","slug":"jeneral-findings-week-2014-11-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Jeneral findings of the week: 2014-11-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good\/interesting\/provoking finds\u00a0I&#8217;ve stumbled across this week. 2014-11-23.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pamie.com\/2014\/11\/barbie-fucks-it-up-again\/\">Barbie F*cks It Up Again<\/a> &#8211; A brilliant deconstruction of why this book about how Barbie wants to become a computer engineer is a big fail and demonstrates yet again the underlying sexist attitudes towards women in IT. Hilarious and provokes outrage\u00a0at the same time, it&#8217;s not something you&#8217;d want to expose to your daughters without careful context.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/helenjane.com\/2012\/05\/07\/mom-2-0-presentation\/\">Helen Jane&#8217;s Mom 2.0 Presentation<\/a>:\u00a0Solutions for a painful internet &#8211; Originally created as a presentation deck, it nevertheless has impact and suggested prescription for anyone who is feeling overwhelmed by the changes social media has brought to our lives.<\/li>\n<li>A teacher and administrator from Calgary writing a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/missnightmutters.com\/2014\/11\/dear-parent-about-that-kid.html\">story about encounters with parents about THAT kid<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/parenting\/what-i-learned-about-that-kid-and-this-world-from-15-million-blog-hits\/article21652240\/\">teacher&#8217;s follow up on the reaction<\/a>. A message underlying the empathy we all need for each others&#8217; children, and each other as parents and teachers. I can only hope that the majority of teachers that my kids will encounter will be like this teacher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>~Jen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Jeneral findings of the week: 2014-11-30\" href=\"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/2014\/11\/jeneral-findings-week-2014-11-30\/\">Next week&#8217;s findings&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good\/interesting\/provoking finds\u00a0I&#8217;ve stumbled across this week. 2014-11-23. Barbie F*cks It Up Again &#8211; A brilliant deconstruction of why this book about how Barbie wants to become a computer engineer is a big fail and demonstrates yet again the underlying sexist attitudes towards women in IT. Hilarious and provokes outrage\u00a0at the same time, it&#8217;s not something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeneral findings of the week: 2014-11-23<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[232,326],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jeneral-findings","tag-mindfulness","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clothespins-e1474432379380.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}