{"id":1010,"date":"2015-11-06T16:55:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:00:55","slug":"blake-lively-is-calling-attention-to-a-terrifying-truth-female-genital-mutilation-occurs-in-america-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/blake-lively-is-calling-attention-to-a-terrifying-truth-female-genital-mutilation-occurs-in-america-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Is Calling Attention to a Terrifying Truth: Female Genital Mutilation Occurs in America, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\">Blake Lively may have shuttered her platform Preserve, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped the star from speaking out about\u00a0things she thinks are important\u2014including protecting and supporting women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\">Today on Instagram,\u00a0Lively launched an\u00a0initiative to call attention to\u00a0FGM\u2014female genital mutilation\u2014a procedure\u00a0that involves removing parts or all of a woman&#8217;s genitals for non-medical reasons. It&#8217;s long been practiced in parts of Africa and was recently banned in Nigeria, but Lively points out the chilling fact that FGM isn&#8217;t just something that happens in other places\u2014it&#8217;s right in our own backyard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\">Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/news\/a16755\/blake-lively-fgm-instagram\/\">http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/news\/a16755\/blake-lively-fgm-instagram\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Lively may have shuttered her platform Preserve, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped the star from speaking out about\u00a0things she thinks are important\u2014including protecting and supporting women. Today on Instagram,\u00a0Lively launched an\u00a0initiative to call attention to\u00a0FGM\u2014female genital mutilation\u2014a procedure\u00a0that involves removing parts or all of a woman&#8217;s genitals for non-medical reasons. It&#8217;s long been practiced in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[218,353,45,98,4,31],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-africa","tag-blake-lively","tag-female-genital-mutilation","tag-fgm","tag-halo-project","tag-victims"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}