{"id":47196,"date":"2022-08-07T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/07\/they-beat-girls-just-for-smiling-life-in-afghanistan-one-year-after-the-talibans-return"},"modified":"2022-08-07T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T09:00:39","slug":"they-beat-girls-just-for-smiling-life-in-afghanistan-one-year-after-the-talibans-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47196","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They beat girls just for smiling\u2019: life in Afghanistan one year after the Taliban\u2019s return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their promises of peace and stability, the country is on its knees, and its people are desperate<\/p>\n<p>Maryam* is near the top of her sixth grade class in Kabul, which under Taliban rule means that her education should be ending in a few months.<\/p>\n<p>But the 10-year-old, whose name we have changed to protect her identity, has a strategy to stay in school for another year, and her eyes dance with satisfaction as she explains her plan. \u201cI will make sure I don\u2019t answer too many questions right. I have decided to fail, so I can study sixth grade again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/07\/they-beat-girls-just-for-smiling-life-in-afghanistan-one-year-after-the-talibans-return\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their promises of peace and stability, the country is on its knees, and its people are desperateMaryam* is near the top of her sixth grade class in Kabul, which under Taliban rule means that her education should be ending in a few months.But th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"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":[46,621,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ashraf-ghani","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/47196","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\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47197,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47196\/revisions\/47197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}