{"id":39706,"date":"2021-12-11T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/11\/curious-indian-woman-104-fulfils-dream-learning-read"},"modified":"2021-12-11T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T08:00:04","slug":"i-was-always-curious-indian-woman-104-fulfils-dream-of-learning-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39706","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was always curious\u2019: Indian woman, 104, fulfils dream of learning to read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily newspaper is new joy for Kuttiyamma, who began taking lessons from her neighbour a year ago<\/p>\n<p>For almost a century, Kuttiyamma\u2019s daily routine had been much the same. Rising early at home in the village of Thiruvanchoor in Kerala, the 104-year-old would begin her day\u2019s work of cooking, cleaning and feeding the cows and chickens.<\/p>\n<p>But now, every morning, there\u2019s something new to get up for. She eagerly awaits the paperboy to deliver Malayala Manorama, the local newspaper.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/11\/curious-indian-woman-104-fulfils-dream-learning-read\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily newspaper is new joy for Kuttiyamma, who began taking lessons from her neighbour a year agoFor almost a century, Kuttiyamma\u2019s daily routine had been much the same. Rising early at home in the village of Thiruvanchoor in Kerala, the 104-year-old w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2728,"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":[615,62,1744,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-india","category-literacy","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","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\/39706","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\/2728"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39707,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39706\/revisions\/39707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}