{"id":63897,"date":"2024-05-08T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T00:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/cathy-nori-solomon-islands-mp-election-parliament"},"modified":"2024-05-08T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T00:03:21","slug":"i-can-rise-above-expectations-the-woman-breaking-barriers-in-pacific-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63897","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can rise above expectations\u2019: the woman breaking barriers in Pacific politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy Nori is one of just three women elected to Solomon Islands\u2019 50-seat parliament in last month\u2019s election<\/p>\n<p>In the final days of her election campaign, Cathy Nori considered giving up. The 57-year-old had been trekking up a mountain, near her home in Isabel province, Solomon Islands, when she was overcome with exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t help but question my purpose, silently asking \u2026 why I was enduring such hardship,\u201d Nori says in an interview with the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/cathy-nori-solomon-islands-mp-election-parliament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy Nori is one of just three women elected to Solomon Islands\u2019 50-seat parliament in last month\u2019s electionIn the final days of her election campaign, Cathy Nori considered giving up. The 57-year-old had been trekking up a mountain, near her home in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4230,"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":[41,874,63,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-women","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\/63897","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\/4230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63898,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63897\/revisions\/63898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}