{"id":103417,"date":"2019-07-26T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/26\/the-spice-girls-really-do-have-a-positive-message-it-just-took-me-20-years-to-get-it-emma-brockes\/"},"modified":"2019-07-26T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:48:36","slug":"the-spice-girls-really-do-have-a-positive-message-it-just-took-me-20-years-to-get-it-emma-brockes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=103417","title":{"rendered":"The Spice Girls really do have a positive message. It just took me 20 years to get it | Emma Brockes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my kids\u2019 reaction to Geri and co\u2019s comeback, I\u2019ve found myself retroactively convinced by Girl PowerI was 19 years old when the Spice Girls\u2019 first single came out and already outside the upper age limit of their target market. I remember seeing the video for Wannabe, and being a bit sniffy about it. Girl Power was a bogus PR ploy, Geri\u2019s espousal of Thatcherism was absurd, and all that cavorting with Nelson Mandela at the famous 1997 press call was just the bloody end.The push-up bras and belly rings are as cartoonish in their way as any made-for-kids\u2019 TV Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jul\/26\/spice-girls-message-girl-power\" target=\"_blank\">The Spice Girls really do have a positive message. It just took me 20 years to get it | Emma Brockes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my kids\u2019 reaction to Geri and co\u2019s comeback, I\u2019ve found myself retroactively convinced by Girl PowerI was 19 years old when the Spice Girls\u2019 first single came out and already outside the upper age limit of their target market. I remember seeing the video for Wannabe, and being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}