{"id":2308,"date":"2019-12-25T07:13:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T11:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2019-12-25T07:19:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T11:19:42","slug":"2308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"An Important Response to Marianne Williamson&#8217;s Afghan War Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Letter to the SOTN Editor<\/h1>\n<h3><!--more-->Thoughts on the proposal of<br \/>\nMarianne Williamson to help<br \/>\nwomen in other countries etc.<br \/>\n(In response to the following<br \/>\nSOTN post: <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=2271\">Marianne Williamson,<br \/>\na 2020 Democrat Presidential Candidate,<br \/>\n<strong>Says We Must Stay in Afghanistan <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>to Advance Feminism<\/strong><\/a>)<\/h3>\n<h3>While in the USA there are<br \/>\n219,000 incarcerated women<br \/>\nas of Nov. 2018, according to<br \/>\na Prison Policy report.<br \/>\nThat means there are 133 women<br \/>\nin jail for every 100,000 citizens.<\/h3>\n<h3>According to Global Trends,<br \/>\n20 percent of US children live<br \/>\nin poverty in 2015.\u00a0 43 percent<br \/>\nof these children live in single-<br \/>\nmother households.<\/h3>\n<h3>The above data would tell us to<br \/>\nreallocate our military funding<br \/>\nand support mothers in the USA<br \/>\nwho are in jail for minor offenses<br \/>\nrelated to property or drugs.<\/h3>\n<h3>And to better support women<br \/>\nin general in order to keep<br \/>\nthe family together and promote<br \/>\ntheir well-being; the well-being<br \/>\nof our future citizens!<\/h3>\n<h3>Submitted by: A Concerned Citizen<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the SOTN Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}