{"id":103262,"date":"2016-04-29T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/29\/often-women-arent-allowed-to-be-characters-in\/"},"modified":"2016-04-29T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T06:48:00","slug":"often-women-arent-allowed-to-be-characters-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/29\/often-women-arent-allowed-to-be-characters-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u2026often women aren\u2019t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn\u2019t that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their mark and they are remembered by history, we are offered a fantasy version of their lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Dr. Bettany Hughes <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.english-heritage.org.uk\/women-written-history-interview-bettany-hughes\/?utm_content=buffer547a2&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">on women\u2019s absence from history<\/a>, and the ways historians need to actively put women back into the narrative.\u00a0 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalnotebook.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">thepoliticalnotebook<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026often women aren\u2019t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn\u2019t that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/29\/often-women-arent-allowed-to-be-characters-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2562,261,4,4374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}