{"id":174,"date":"2024-05-19T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2024-05-19T19:08:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T02:08:23","slug":"national-organization-of-women-now-freedom-ashcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"National Organization of Women (NOW) &#8211; freedom ashcan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September 7, Women\u2019s Liberation groups, joined by members of New York NOW,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/research\/chronicles\/fc1968.html\">target the Miss America Beauty Contest<\/a>\u00a0in Atlantic City. The protest includes theatrical demonstrations including ritual disposal of traditional female roles into the \u201cfreedom ashcan.\u201d While nothing is actually set on fire, one organizer\u2019s comment \u2013 quoted in the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0the next day \u2013 that the protesters \u201cwouldn\u2019t do anything dangerous, just a symbolic bra-burning,\u201d lives on in the derogatory term \u201cbra-burning feminist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RP11Haq98rM?si=9RYqGpZ2XUKLrlqV\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 7, Women\u2019s Liberation groups, joined by members of New York NOW,\u00a0target the Miss America Beauty Contest\u00a0in Atlantic City. The protest includes theatrical demonstrations including ritual disposal of traditional female roles into the \u201cfreedom ashcan.\u201d While nothing is actually set on fire, one organizer\u2019s comment \u2013 quoted in the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0the next day \u2013 that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}