{"id":121769,"date":"2015-12-23T04:25:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T04:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/23\/as-alankaar-sharma-a-social-worker-and\/"},"modified":"2015-12-23T04:25:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T04:25:22","slug":"as-alankaar-sharma-a-social-worker-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/23\/as-alankaar-sharma-a-social-worker-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As Alankaar Sharma, a social worker and researcher, tells Quartz, \u201cPossessing a gun is considered by many men, if not most, as a straightforward way of subscribing to dominant masculinity.\u201d In his view, the patriarchal system, which privileges a certain set of masculine behaviors, values, and practices, provides men with \u201ca clear and justifiable reason to own guns.\u201d It cements their identity as masculine men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2F576152%2Famericas-gun-problem-has-everything-to-do-with-americas-masculinity-problem%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s gun problem has everything to do with America\u2019s masculinity problem<\/p>\n<p><\/a><br \/> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/femininefreak.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">femininefreak<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Alankaar Sharma, a social worker and researcher, tells Quartz, \u201cPossessing a gun is considered by many men, if not most, as a straightforward way of subscribing to dominant masculinity.\u201d In his view, the patriarchal system, which privileges a certain set of masculine behaviors, values, and practices, provides men with \u201ca clear and justifiable reason &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/23\/as-alankaar-sharma-a-social-worker-and\/\" 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":[14570,2200,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121769"}],"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=121769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}