{"id":26092,"date":"2011-05-10T03:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T03:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_conference_aims_to_empower_u-s-_muslim_women\/"},"modified":"2011-05-10T03:55:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T03:55:46","slug":"la_times_conference_aims_to_empower_u-s-_muslim_women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26092","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Conference aims to empower U.S. Muslim women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sounds of Helen Reddy&#8217;s 1972 anthem to the women&#8217;s liberation movement, &#8220;I Am Woman,&#8221; filled the Irvine hotel ballroom where several hundred participants gathered Saturday for the American Muslim Women&#8217;s Empowerment Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The song selection was fitting because the message speakers gave was basically the same as it was four decades ago: Know your rights, and exercise them.<\/p>\n<p>But there was an added twist: By standing up for their rights inside and outside the home, American Muslim women can be a force against religious and political extremism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-muslim-women-20110508,0,6757092.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sounds of Helen Reddy&#8217;s 1972 anthem to the women&#8217;s liberation movement, &#8220;I Am Woman,&#8221; filled the Irvine hotel ballroom where several hundred participants gathered Saturday for the American Muslim Women&#8217;s Empowerment Conference. The song selection was fitting because the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26092\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,426,155,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}