{"id":98,"date":"2007-11-17T03:02:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T10:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/98"},"modified":"2007-11-17T03:06:27","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T10:06:27","slug":"what-women-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/what-women-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What Women Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently several LDS women collaborated on a response to Relief Society President Beck&#8217;s recent &#8220;<a target=\"resource_window\" href=\"http:\/\/lds.org\/conference\/talk\/display\/0,5232,23-1-775-27,00.html\" title=\"Julie Beck Conference Talk\">Mothers Who Know<\/a>&#8221; general conference talk in October 2007.\u00c2\u00a0 They entitled this documenent <strong><a target=\"resource_window\" href=\"http:\/\/whatwomenknow.org\/\">What Women Know<\/a><\/strong> and published it online today<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the women is a friend of mine and sent the document to me for review &#8211; and to sign if I so chose.\u00c2\u00a0 What they came up with really resonated with me, and I was happy and honored to sign it.\u00c2\u00a0 A few of the items that stood out for me:<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<li>I like that this statement affirms and includes <em>all <\/em>women, not just mothers.<\/li>\n<li>I like that it specifically mentions nurturing fathers as well as mothers.<\/li>\n<li>I really like that it puts cleanliness into perspective &#8211; a luxury and personal choice when one has access to resources.<\/li>\n<li>The statement: &#8220;anyone who is regularly reminded that she is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>equally important<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is probably not.&#8221;<\/li>\n<p>I invite you to <a target=\"resource_window\" href=\"http:\/\/whatwomenknow.org\/\" title=\"What Women Know\">visit their site<\/a> to read this beautiful\u00c2\u00a0and affirming declaration, and add your signature if it resonates with you.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Men are also invited to sign.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently several LDS women collaborated on a response to Relief Society President Beck&#8217;s recent &#8220;Mothers Who Know&#8221; general conference talk in October 2007.\u00c2\u00a0 They entitled this documenent What Women Know and published it online today. One of the women is a friend of mine and sent the document to me for review &#8211; and to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/what-women-know\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Women Know<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}