{"id":39715,"date":"2021-12-11T19:31:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T10:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/dec\/11\/indian-woman-learns-to-read-and-write-at-104-video"},"modified":"2021-12-11T19:31:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T10:31:14","slug":"i-didnt-find-the-exam-difficult-indian-woman-learns-to-read-and-write-at-104-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39715","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I didn&#8217;t find the exam difficult\u2019: Indian woman learns to read and write at 104 \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 104-year-old woman has fulfilled her dream to learn to read. After starting in April, Kuttiyamma achieved 89% in literacy and 100% in mathematics in the Kerala state primary literacy exam last month, the oldest woman to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Kuttiyamma had been curious about reading and would often try to make out the alphabet herself, but when she was born in a village to a low-caste rural family, there was no education. Her neighbour Rehana John, a 34-year-old literacy trainer, persuaded her to start to learn to read. Previously, John\u2019s oldest student had been 85<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/11\/curious-indian-woman-104-fulfils-dream-learning-read\">\u2018I was always curious\u2019: Indian woman, 104, fulfils dream of learning to read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/dec\/11\/indian-woman-learns-to-read-and-write-at-104-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 104-year-old woman has fulfilled her dream to learn to read. After starting in April, Kuttiyamma achieved 89% in literacy and 100% in mathematics in the Kerala state primary literacy exam last month, the oldest woman to do so.Kuttiyamma had been curi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[62,1744,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-literacy","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\/39715","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39716,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39715\/revisions\/39716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}