{"id":27136,"date":"2014-07-11T14:54:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T18:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=27136"},"modified":"2014-07-11T14:58:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T18:58:45","slug":"entrepreneur-barbie-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/07\/11\/entrepreneur-barbie-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Entrepreneur Barbie!&#8221;  Are They Toying With Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Entrepreneur Barbie!&#8221;  Are They Toying With Us?<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The new Barbie\u2019s an \u201cEntrepreneur.\u201d<br \/>\nMattel claims it\u2019s intended to spur<br \/>\nYoung girls to create<br \/>\nTheir own bus\u2019ness. But wait!<br \/>\nWhy the form-fitting hot-pink couture?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m NOT making this up!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/entrepreneur-barbie-takes-aim-at-glass-ceiling-1.2701322\">&#8220;Entrepreneur Barbie,<\/a>&#8221; from Mattel Canada, supposedly takes aim at the glass ceiling. Alas, it clearly misses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s unclear by her garb what company she runs; instead of a power suit, she sports a form-fitting, hot pink sleeveless dress, and her briefcase looks more like a designer purse. The only hint that this doll means business are her tiny tablet and smartphone accessories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Entrepreneur Barbie!&#8221; Are They Toying With Us? By Madeleine Begun Kane The new Barbie\u2019s an \u201cEntrepreneur.\u201d Mattel claims it\u2019s intended to spur Young girls to create Their own bus\u2019ness. But wait! Why the form-fitting hot-pink couture? I&#8217;m NOT making this up! &#8220;Entrepreneur Barbie,&#8221; from Mattel Canada, supposedly takes aim at the glass ceiling. Alas, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1122,40,38,42,4],"tags":[4219,4912,2295,4220,4218,804,4221,2593,4222],"class_list":["post-27136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-humor","category-canada","category-children-humor","category-feminist-satire","category-limericks","category-workplace-humor","tag-barbie-doll-humor","tag-business-humor","tag-children-limerick","tag-doll-humor","tag-entrepreneur-barbie","tag-feminism-humor","tag-mattel-canada","tag-toys-humor","tag-young-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27136"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27142,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27136\/revisions\/27142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}