{"id":35724,"date":"2021-08-23T04:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T19:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/we-lost-everything-afghan-wheelchair-basketball-team-captain-speaks-out"},"modified":"2021-08-23T04:23:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T19:23:46","slug":"we-lost-everything-afghan-wheelchair-basketball-team-captain-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35724","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We lost everything\u2019: Afghan wheelchair basketball team captain speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nilofar Bayat begins rebuilding her life in Spain after days of fear for her life under Taliban rule<\/p>\n<p>When the Taliban entered Kabul, Nilofar Bayat, the captain of Afghanistan\u2019s female national wheelchair basketball team, knew she had to get out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were so many videos of me playing basketball. I had been active in calling for women\u2019s rights and the rights of women with disabilities,\u201d she said. \u201cIf the Taliban found out all of this about me, I knew they would kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/we-lost-everything-afghan-wheelchair-basketball-team-captain-speaks-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nilofar Bayat begins rebuilding her life in Spain after days of fear for her life under Taliban ruleWhen the Taliban entered Kabul, Nilofar Bayat, the captain of Afghanistan\u2019s female national wheelchair basketball team, knew she had to get out.\u201cThere w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1156,"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":[46,2313,1835,221,78,61,746,203,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-basketball","category-disability-and-sport","category-europe","category-life-and-style","category-south-and-central-asia","category-spain","category-sport","category-taliban","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35724","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\/1156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35725,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35724\/revisions\/35725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}