{"id":653,"date":"2025-11-24T10:49:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hkn.b42.myftpupload.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:49:32","slug":"celebrating-girls-leadership-and-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating girls\u2019 leadership and initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thank you for page 9 of your October issue, with the stories about the 10-year-old journalist launching a newspaper for her neighbourhood (\u201cSharing the news in Hackett\u2019s Cove\u201d) and the pair of 16-year-olds seeing a gap for shucking oysters at events and creating a business to address that gap (\u201cAh, shucks: Teen<br>entrepreneurs shucking their way to success\u201d).<br>Seeing those stories above the lovely image and information about October 11 being the International Day of the Girl Child was a sensitive decision on your newspaper\u2019s part and made for an inspiring page.<br>As a retired teacher and the mother and grandmother of girls, I know it is important for us to recognize that we have not yet achieved equality between women and men\u2014and addressing this starts when they are girls and boys.<br>How heartening to read about girls in our area who are showing leadership and initiative and being<br>celebrated in our community newspaper for doing so. Please keep sharing such stories.<br><strong><em>Margaret MacLean<br>Halifax<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for page 9 of your October issue, with the stories about the 10-year-old journalist launching a newspaper for her neighbourhood (\u201cSharing the news in Hackett\u2019s Cove\u201d) and the pair of 16-year-olds seeing a gap for shucking oysters at events and creating a business to address that gap (\u201cAh, shucks: Teenentrepreneurs shucking their way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/independent-white-fish.learmonthmarketing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}