{"id":40394,"date":"2022-01-07T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/07\/taliban-stop-afghan-women-using-bathhouses-in-northern-provinces"},"modified":"2022-01-07T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T06:00:33","slug":"taliban-stop-afghan-women-using-bathhouses-in-northern-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40394","title":{"rendered":"Taliban stop Afghan women using bathhouses in northern provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision to close public hammams \u2013 most people\u2019s only chance for a warm wash \u2013 sparks anger in light of country\u2019s mounting crises<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban sparked outrage this week by announcing that women in northern Afghanistan would no longer be allowed to use communal bathhouses.<\/p>\n<p>The use of bathhouses, or hammams, is an ancient tradition that remains for many people the only chance for a warm wash during the country\u2019s bitterly cold winters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/07\/taliban-stop-afghan-women-using-bathhouses-in-northern-provinces\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision to close public hammams \u2013 most people\u2019s only chance for a warm wash \u2013 sparks anger in light of country\u2019s mounting crisesThe Taliban sparked outrage this week by announcing that women in northern Afghanistan would no longer be allowed to use co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":747,"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":[46,59,447,78,371,61,44,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-islam","category-life-and-style","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/40394","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\/747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40395,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40394\/revisions\/40395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}