{"id":3196,"date":"2011-10-31T12:19:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T17:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2011\/10\/31\/jillian-steinhauer-in-defense-of-youth-activism-and-the-like-button\/"},"modified":"2011-10-31T12:19:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T17:19:50","slug":"jillian-steinhauer-in-defense-of-youth-activism-and-the-like-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2011\/10\/31\/jillian-steinhauer-in-defense-of-youth-activism-and-the-like-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Jillian Steinhauer: In Defense of Youth Activism and the Like Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, my generation\u2014Generation Y, the Millenial Generation\u2014has been charged with detachment. Because of us, adult writers coined the term \u201cFacebook activism, \u201d and they lectured us that clicking \u201cLike\u201d buttons and signing electronic petitions could never effect real change. Now some of my cohort has leapt from the virtual to the real world: they\u2019ve taken to the streets, their numbers are swelling, and they refuse to leave. They deserve a little more faith. More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guernicamag.com\/blog\/3196\/jillian_steinhauer_in_defense\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, my generation\u2014Generation Y, the Millenial Generation\u2014has been charged with detachment. Because of us, adult writers coined the term \u201cFacebook activism, \u201d and they lectured us that clicking \u201cLike\u201d buttons and signing electronic petitions could never effect real change. Now some of my cohort has leapt from the virtual to the real world: they\u2019ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2011\/10\/31\/jillian-steinhauer-in-defense-of-youth-activism-and-the-like-button\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jillian Steinhauer: In Defense of Youth Activism and the Like Button<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}