{"id":10536,"date":"2012-01-03T21:10:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T21:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/01\/03\/i-have-been-awarded-a-great-ho\/"},"modified":"2012-01-03T21:10:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T21:10:18","slug":"i-have-been-awarded-a-great-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/i-have-been-awarded-a-great-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"I have been awarded a Great Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-5988cdb3e8aa1ed766217871996e1fdd-kickass2011_B.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-5988cdb3e8aa1ed766217871996e1fdd-kickass2011_B.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Along with some other deserving people including &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Greta Christina, Ophelia Benson, Jen McCreight, Amanda Marcotte, Stephanie Zvan, Greg Laden, and PZ Myers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hardly a secret that last year was a challenging one for me in terms of a large number of people in our community shitting on me on a daily basis. Amanda, Stephanie, Greg, and PZ were with me at SkepchickCon last year when Richard Dawkins told me that sexism in this community didn&#8217;t matter because FGM. I&#8217;ll be honest: that was kind of a low point for me, and a big part of me just wanted to pack up and never interact with the atheist community again.<\/p>\n<p>But seeing the reaction of Amanda, PZ, Greg, and Stephanie helped me put it into perspective and realize that I wasn&#8217;t alone in this fight, and that meant the world to me. In the weeks that followed, Greta, Ophelia, and Jen joined in to publicly denounce both Dawkins and others who were trying to bully me into silence.<\/p>\n<p>Their support has extended far beyond the Dawkins disaster. When I recently&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/2012\/01\/skeptics-who-kicked-ass-2011\/\">Go read all about it here<\/a> and leave a nice supporting and encouraging comment, or I&#8217;ll kick your ass!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with some other deserving people including &#8230; Greta Christina, Ophelia Benson, Jen McCreight, Amanda Marcotte, Stephanie Zvan, Greg Laden, and PZ Myers It&#8217;s hardly a secret that last year was a challenging one for me in terms of a large number of people in our community shitting on me on a daily basis. Amanda, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/i-have-been-awarded-a-great-ho\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I have been awarded a Great Honor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2JW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}