{"id":3516,"date":"2016-05-08T20:43:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/08\/the-best-way-to-support-every-mother-on-the-planet-starting-now\/"},"modified":"2016-05-08T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T12:43:10","slug":"the-best-way-to-support-every-mother-on-the-planet-starting-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/08\/the-best-way-to-support-every-mother-on-the-planet-starting-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The best way to support every mother on the planet, starting now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before I became a mother 19 months ago, I knew that having a child would transform my life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My mother raised five children over three decades, often on her own, and by watching her I understood the sacrifices required to sustain a family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Yet I considered my mom’s struggles extraordinary; she had her first child at 19 and never got the chance to complete college. She sold crafts and worked part-time in customer service jobs to help provide for her children.\u00a0We experienced joy and pain sometimes in equal measure, but few hard nights ended without one of us cracking a joke that unleashed hysterical laughter. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Before I became a mother 19 months ago, I knew that having a child would transform my life.\u00a0 My mother raised five children over three decades, often on her own, and by watching her I understood the sacrifices required to … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[870,1161,788,1093,1049],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-family-parenting","tag-gender","tag-lifestyle","tag-parenting","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}