{"id":23122,"date":"2020-09-26T01:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/25\/afghanistan-shamsia-alizada-university-entrance-exam"},"modified":"2020-09-26T01:24:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:24:51","slug":"coalminers-daughter-comes-out-top-in-afghanistans-university-entrance-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23122","title":{"rendered":"Coalminer&#8217;s daughter comes out top in Afghanistan&#8217;s university entrance exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Shamsia Alizada, 18, first out of more than 170,000 students<\/li>\n<li>Government in talks with Taliban, which barred girls in schools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The daughter of an Afghan coalminer has come top in the country\u2019s university entrance exam and is setting her sights on becoming a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Shamsia Alizada, 18, came first out of more than 170,000 students, the education ministry said, prompting congratulations from former president Hamid Karzai and foreign envoys including the US charge d\u2019affaires.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/25\/afghanistan-shamsia-alizada-university-entrance-exam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamsia Alizada, 18, first out of more than 170,000 studentsGovernment in talks with Taliban, which barred girls in schoolsThe daughter of an Afghan coalminer has come top in the country\u2019s university entrance exam and is setting her sights on becoming &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/23122","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23123,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122\/revisions\/23123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}