{"id":494,"date":"2008-01-18T20:47:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T01:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/18\/grimke-sisters-then-and-now\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T22:41:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T03:41:22","slug":"grimke-sisters-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/18\/grimke-sisters-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Grimke sisters, then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/r3hM5q4J3pg&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/r3hM5q4J3pg&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As one of the midwives who helped birth the South Carolina feminist organization the Grimke Sisters in 2002, it was a kick to stumble on this funky little video celebrating these exceptional women &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatwomen.org\/women.php?action=viewone&#038;id=69\">Sarah and Angelina Grimke<\/a> &#8211; homegirls from Charleston who made history by thinking big and living large. <\/p>\n<p>The women who so inspired us that we named our group for them deserve a monument on our State House lawn, littered as it is with statuary dedicated to our state&#8217;s historical figures (sadly, without regard to their humanitarian records). That&#8217;s not bloody likely, but we can remember the Grimke sisters here.<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to join the Grimke Sisters group online, you can subscribe to the listserv by sending e-mail to GrimkeSisters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.<\/p>\n<p>Becci Robbins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the midwives who helped birth the South Carolina feminist organization the Grimke Sisters in 2002, it was a kick to stumble on this funky little video celebrating these exceptional women &#8211; Sarah and Angelina Grimke &#8211; homegirls &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/18\/grimke-sisters-then-and-now\/\">Continue reading <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":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}