{"id":23821,"date":"2020-10-15T15:15:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T06:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/15\/my-ticket-out-the-indian-village-where-every-family-has-an-engineer"},"modified":"2020-10-15T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T06:15:16","slug":"my-ticket-out-the-indian-village-where-every-family-has-an-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23821","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My ticket out&#8217;: the Indian village where every family has an engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students from a small community traditionally known for weaving are beating the odds to gain coveted university places<\/p>\n<p>He had tossed and turned all night. When he finally got out of bed at 4am, Anand Kumar realised his parents had too.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old was confident he had worked hard for his exam \u2013 the joint entrance exam (JEE), which is the ticket to India\u2019s finest engineering institutions \u2013 but the anxiety was undeniable. Huddled together in their living room last week, the family sat refreshing the JEE homepage repeatedly on two smartphones as they waited for the results to be uploaded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/15\/my-ticket-out-the-indian-village-where-every-family-has-an-engineer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from a small community traditionally known for weaving are beating the odds to gain coveted university placesHe had tossed and turned all night. When he finally got out of bed at 4am, Anand Kumar realised his parents had too.The 17-year-old wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"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":[615,1362,59,860,862,62,958,61,694,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-engineering","category-global-development","category-global-education","category-higher-education","category-india","category-poverty","category-south-and-central-asia","category-universities","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\/23821","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\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23822,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions\/23822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}