{"id":501,"date":"2015-02-02T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2015-02-02T00:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T05:35:00","slug":"jeneral-finds-week-2015-02-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"Jeneral finds of the week: 2015-02-01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the good\/interesting\/provoking finds\u00a0I\u2019ve stumbled across this week: 2015-02-01<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve caught this story from the photo blogger Humans of New York (HONY), but it&#8217;s the kind of thing that restores your faith in the decency of the human spirit and the good of the internet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humansofnewyork.com\/post\/108853481056\/after-our-first-meeting-ms-lopez-invited-me-to\">This is the first post that I saw<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve been following each post since. Any of the posts featuring Vidal or Ms. Lopez beings me to tears. What a great story. The indigogo fundraiser to <a href=\"https:\/\/life.indiegogo.com\/fundraisers\/let-s-send-kids-to-harvard\">provide their scholars the opportunity to visit Harvard<\/a>, has become so successful they now have enough to have 10 years of Harvard visits, summer programs AND provide scholarships to future grads<\/li>\n<li>Glassbreakers\u2014a Tinder-like platform\u00a0to match peer women in the\u00a0tech field in your area with the intent to create peer mentorships. Like networking, but with a discernible\u00a0purpose. http:\/\/m.fastcoexist.com\/3041529\/change-generation\/women-in-tech-this-platform-will-match-you-to-peer-mentors-tinder-style<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/01\/why-i-am-not-a-maker\/384767\/\">&#8220;Why I Am Not a Maker&#8221;<\/a><\/em> [The Atlantic]. \u00a0&#8220;When tech culture only celebrates creation, it risks ignoring those who teach, criticize, and take care of others.&#8221; Hear hear. I think in today&#8217;s day and culture, this extends past the creation of tech, and includes the glorification of the creation of money. Now how do we bring balance back to our society to value these other highly important contributors to our society?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>~Jen<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jeneral finds of the week: 2015-01-25\" href=\"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/2015\/01\/jeneral-finds-week-2015-01-25\/\">&lt;&#8211;Previous week&#8217;s finds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the good\/interesting\/provoking finds\u00a0I\u2019ve stumbled across this week: 2015-02-01 I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve caught this story from the photo blogger Humans of New York (HONY), but it&#8217;s the kind of thing that restores your faith in the decency of the human spirit and the good of the internet. This is the first post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeneral finds of the week: 2015-02-01<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[180,345,394],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jeneral-findings","tag-humanity","tag-technology","tag-working-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}