{"id":47419,"date":"2022-08-13T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/13\/an-afghan-girls-despair-over-taliban-school-ban-we-are-wilting-away-at-home"},"modified":"2022-08-13T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T12:00:39","slug":"an-afghan-girls-despair-over-school-ban-we-are-wilting-away-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47419","title":{"rendered":"An Afghan girl\u2019s despair over school ban: \u2018We are wilting away at home\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since returning to power the Taliban have banned secondary school-aged girls from getting an education. Here Farzana*, 16, tells her story<\/p>\n<p>Last year I was in 11th grade, the second highest-placed student in my class, with an average grade of 95%. Now I sit at home all day doing almost nothing. Sometimes I help my mum with housework, but really there are no distractions for me.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t even read books, because I have lost the will to continue. After you lose 11 years of effort all at once, you can\u2019t hold on to your dreams to make something of your life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/13\/an-afghan-girls-despair-over-taliban-school-ban-we-are-wilting-away-at-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since returning to power the Taliban have banned secondary school-aged girls from getting an education. Here Farzana*, 16, tells her storyLast year I was in 11th grade, the second highest-placed student in my class, with an average grade of 95%. Now I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2796,"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":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/47419","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\/2796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47420,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47419\/revisions\/47420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}