{"id":21803,"date":"2013-08-09T19:03:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/happy-womens-day\/"},"modified":"2013-08-09T19:03:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T17:03:58","slug":"happy-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/happy-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now here is something that I really struggle with.<\/p>\n<p>Much like I tell the opposition political parties; \u201cIf you want to be the next party in power then you had better start acting like a responsible party with a plan \u2013 this continual negative criticism, sniping and scoring of \u2018political points\u2019 does not say to me that you are responsible and ready to take power but rather demonstrates that you just want to feed at the trough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So how did Women\u2019s Day get me going like this?<\/p>\n<p>Simple \u2013 our government has a Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities \u2013 I have heard many women complain that they don\u2019t want to share resources with children and people with disabilities (tongue in cheek I am sure). But men don\u2019t get to share a department looking after their concerns or wellbeing! Somehow and in some twisted way I think that continual harping at the rights of Women, Children and People with Disabilities only serves to marginalise and divide society even further. If you shine a light on something sometimes it doesn\u2019t quite work out the way you wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I am mired in the detail and don\u2019t see the larger picture \u2013 so would someone please explain it to me?<\/p>\n<p><strong>While you think about it vote in our poll:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ef6a5_loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>\u00a0Loading &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>These businesses support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a> supports PE business:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here is something that I really struggle with. Much like I tell the opposition political parties; \u201cIf you want to be the next party in power then you had better start acting like a responsible party with a plan \u2013 this continual negative criticism, sniping and scoring of \u2018political points\u2019 does not say to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-21803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}