{"id":40867,"date":"2022-01-20T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/20\/i-am-losing-my-skills-female-boxer-who-was-on-afghan-national-team"},"modified":"2022-01-20T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T14:00:06","slug":"i-am-losing-my-skills-female-boxer-who-was-on-afghan-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40867","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am losing my skills\u2019: female boxer who was on Afghan national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with her sister, Mariam was forced to stop practising her sport when the Taliban came to power<\/p>\n<p> <em>*Mariam and her sister were on the national boxing team and the youth boxing team. They were ordered by the Taliban to stop practi<\/em><em>sing, and are frightened they may be targeted in future. The interview was interrupted by a hail of gunshots near the place they are staying.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>About two weeks after they took Kabul, the Taliban sent two gunmen to our doorstep. They told us: \u201cForget your dreams. The Islamic emirate is here now, you should stop boxing, and not go to the stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/20\/i-am-losing-my-skills-female-boxer-who-was-on-afghan-national-team\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with her sister, Mariam was forced to stop practising her sport when the Taliban came to power *Mariam and her sister were on the national boxing team and the youth boxing team. They were ordered by the Taliban to stop practising, and are frighte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2808,"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":[46,2248,79,61,203,44,2410,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boxing","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-taliban","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","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\/40867","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\/2808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40868,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40867\/revisions\/40868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}