{"id":19,"date":"2009-11-23T20:59:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T01:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaywhaley.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-11-23T20:59:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T01:59:06","slug":"women-and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jaywhaley\/2009\/11\/23\/women-and-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had many comments, most from women, bothered about my observations about my female students and their fear of fire.\u00a0 My observations come from almost 30 years of teaching students, and believe me, if anyone is working to empower women to make whatever they want with tools (including torches ), then that would be me.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if anyone thinks that horse handling, cooking over a gas range, lighting a bonfire, helping put out a forest fire, or shooting a gun is\u00a0the same as\u00a0using a torch in a metalsmithing studio, then excuse me very much.\u00a0 Please.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I make some very carefuly generalized statements, but they are based on years of helping people get over their fear of fire, and learn what an important\u00a0 (and safe to handle )tool a torch can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had many comments, most from women, bothered about my observations about my female students and their fear of fire.\u00a0 My observations come from almost 30 years of teaching students, and believe me, if anyone is working to empower women to make whatever they want with tools (including torches ), then that would be me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jaywhaley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jaywhaley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jaywhaley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jaywhaley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jaywhaley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jaywhaley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jaywhaley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jaywhaley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jaywhaley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jaywhaley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}