{"id":1089,"date":"2022-09-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2022-09-18T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:32:04","slug":"not-the-pink-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/topics\/growing-up-girl\/not-the-pink-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Not The Pink One"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1089\" data-postid=\"1089\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1089 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_xe1a706 tb_first tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top col-count-1 tf_box tf_w tf_rel\">\n\t\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full first tb_qmfo706 tf_box\">\n\t\t\t    \t        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n\t\t    <!-- module fancy heading -->\n<div  class=\"module module-fancy-heading tb_i8ud188 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <h1 class=\"fancy-heading\">\n    <span class=\"main-head tf_block\">\n\t\t\t\t\tNot The Pink One\t\t    <\/span>\n\n\t\n    <span class=\"sub-head tf_block tf_rel\">\n\t\t\t\t\tGrowing Up Girl\t\t    <\/span>\n    <\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module fancy heading -->\n<!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_o2oy291   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p>Girls are supposed to like pink, and boys are supposed to like blue. What about all those other colors? As a girl, I didn\u2019t like pink at all. It didn\u2019t matter. My mother kept buying pink things.<\/p>\n<p>One day, I got a Barbie doll with a pink case. It had a whole lot of pink accessories. I hated it!\u00a0 I carried that whole set down the street and traded it with a boy named Mike. What did he give me? His new baseball<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_4i9c167   image-center tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/not-the-pink-one-quote.jpg\" width=\"350\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1090\" alt=\"not the pink one: growing up girl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/not-the-pink-one-quote.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/not-the-pink-one-quote-628x628.jpg 628w, https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/not-the-pink-one-quote-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/not-the-pink-one-quote-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_7mfz310   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p>I was maybe ten years old. I loved baseball and he hated it. I don\u2019t think he really wanted my doll. He liked a girl over on the other block. He probably gave it to her.<\/p><p>My mother was absolutely angry about what I\u2019d done. Sorry Mom, some girls just don\u2019t like pink. Doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re not girls.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->\t        <\/div>\n\t    \t<\/div>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the Pink One: M. H. Mundy &#8211; Thoughts on growing up girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing-up-girl","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"<h1>Not The Pink One<br\/>Growing Up Girl<\/h1>\n<p>Girls are supposed to like pink, and boys are supposed to like blue. What about all those other colors? As a girl, I didn\u2019t like pink at all. It didn\u2019t matter. My mother kept buying pink things.<\/p> <p>One day, I got a Barbie doll with a pink case. It had a whole lot of pink accessories. I hated it!\u00a0 I carried that whole set down the street and traded it with a boy named Mike. What did he give me? His new baseball<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/not-the-pink-one-quote.jpg\" width=\"350\" alt=\"not the pink one: growing up girl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/not-the-pink-one-quote.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/not-the-pink-one-quote-628x628.jpg 628w, https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/not-the-pink-one-quote-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/not-the-pink-one-quote-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\n<p>I was maybe ten years old. I loved baseball and he hated it. I don\u2019t think he really wanted my doll. He liked a girl over on the other block. He probably gave it to her.<\/p><p>My mother was absolutely angry about what I\u2019d done. Sorry Mom, some girls just don\u2019t like pink. Doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re not girls.<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mhmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}