{"id":678,"date":"2012-04-17T03:42:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T03:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2012-04-17T03:43:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T03:43:15","slug":"silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All girls I start to train make their first attempts at executing the techniques in silence, as if the worst thing in the world is to draw attention to themselves.\u00a0 It&#8217;s surprising to me because they can dress up and be these gorgeous dolls, and that kind of attention is okay and even desired.\u00a0 But it is almost an unwritten rule that to appear strong and confident is frowned upon and discouraged, that it is maybe somehow &#8216;unladylike&#8217;.\u00a0 And in my experience, this is not limited to girls in Bihar.\u00a0 Be it in an Indian schoolyard or a Chicago-area dojo, when women and girls are given the chance to make a loud vocal noise, they are often reluctant.\u00a0 So, part of what I am doing here is to try to break that silence.\u00a0 Wish me luck.\u00a0 This is a very steep road indeed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All girls I start to train make their first attempts at executing the techniques in silence, as if the worst thing in the world is to draw attention to themselves.\u00a0 It&#8217;s surprising to me because they can dress up and be these gorgeous dolls, and that kind of attention is okay and even desired.\u00a0 But [&hellip;]<\/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-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}