{"id":58530,"date":"2023-09-20T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/gallery\/2023\/sep\/20\/sisters-of-no-mercy-kathmandus-kung-fu-nuns-in-pictures"},"modified":"2023-09-20T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:15:10","slug":"sisters-of-no-mercy-kathmandus-kung-fu-nuns-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58530","title":{"rendered":"Sisters of no mercy: Kathmandu\u2019s kung fu nuns \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 350 women of the Drukpa dragon order are highly skilled in martial arts, which they practise six days a week. They also help the sick, rescue animals, pick up litter and can rewire a temple<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photographs and text by <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.photoktm.com\/artist\/skanda-gautam\/\">Skanda Gautam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/gallery\/2023\/sep\/20\/sisters-of-no-mercy-kathmandus-kung-fu-nuns-in-pictures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 350 women of the Drukpa dragon order are highly skilled in martial arts, which they practise six days a week. They also help the sick, rescue animals, pick up litter and can rewire a templePhotographs and text by Skanda Gautam Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[211,59,241,371,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-global-development","category-nepal","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","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\/58530","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58531,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58530\/revisions\/58531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}