{"id":33076,"date":"2021-06-14T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/14\/im-sacrificing-myself-agony-of-kabuls-secret-sex-workers-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-06-14T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T05:00:19","slug":"im-sacrificing-myself-agony-of-kabuls-secret-sex-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33076","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m sacrificing myself\u2019: agony of Kabul\u2019s secret sex workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decades of war and grinding poverty have forced more Afghans into risky double lives to survive<\/p>\n<p>When Zainab met her first client almost two years ago, she was drunk, drugged-up, and had passed out by the time he started raping her. She had never touched alcohol before, but was told she\u2019d be better off unconscious. Terrified, she reluctantly agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The man was gone when the then 18-year-old woke up; her body in pain, her thoughts filled with regret.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/14\/im-sacrificing-myself-agony-of-kabuls-secret-sex-workers-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades of war and grinding poverty have forced more Afghans into risky double lives to surviveWhen Zainab met her first client almost two years ago, she was drunk, drugged-up, and had passed out by the time he started raping her. She had never touched&#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":[46,59,1331,1332,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-prostitution","category-sex-trade","category-society","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\/33076","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=33076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33077,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33076\/revisions\/33077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}