{"id":9465,"date":"2010-01-12T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9465"},"modified":"2010-01-12T09:39:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:39:25","slug":"feminism-has-always-been-on-the-wane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9465","title":{"rendered":"Feminism has always been on the wane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del datetime=\"2010-01-12T17:55:52+00:00\">90 <\/del>95 years ago today, the women&#8217;s suffrage movement lost an important vote in the House of Representatives. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/learning\/general\/onthisday\/big\/0112.html\">the New York Times, January 12, 1915<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, President of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, said after the vote was taken tonight:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deliberations of the House of Representatives today were, of course, of the greatest importance because the final vote was such as to persuade the country forever that the National Congress will not undertake to dictate to the various States what they shall do in the regulation of their franchise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my opinion today&#8217;s work in the House demonstrated that from now on the wave of hysteria in which the suffragists have indulged or of which they have been the victims will be on the wane.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Curtsy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donkeylicious.com\/2010\/01\/womens-suffrage-95-years-ago.html\">Donkeylicious<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>90 95 years ago today, the women&#8217;s suffrage movement lost an important vote in the House of Representatives. From the New York Times, January 12, 1915. Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, President of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9465\">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":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}