{"id":18086,"date":"2020-05-11T17:15:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T08:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/may\/11\/love-and-desire-how-erotic-poetry-is-helping-afghans-through-lockdown-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-05-11T17:15:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T08:15:49","slug":"love-and-desire-how-erotic-poetry-is-helping-afghans-through-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18086","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Love and desire&#8217;: how erotic poetry is helping Afghans through lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new generation of poets in Afghanistan is exploring the physical side of love \u2013 and isolation is their inspiration<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It has been weeks in lockdown for Hoda Khamosh, but the 23-year-old has managed to stick to a routine. This includes sitting down in the afternoons to write poetry, mostly with an erotic spin to it.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of touch and seeing friends and loved ones, she \u2013 along with many others \u2013 has turned to erotic poetry, convinced that, \u201cit will help to get through these difficult days\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/may\/11\/love-and-desire-how-erotic-poetry-is-helping-afghans-through-lockdown-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new generation of poets in Afghanistan is exploring the physical side of love \u2013 and isolation is their inspirationCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt has been weeks in lockdown for Hoda Khamosh, but the 23-year-old has mana&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,511,1069,59,78,1397,1289,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-books","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-life-and-style","category-poetry","category-sex","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18087,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18086\/revisions\/18087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}