{"id":7537,"date":"2019-08-22T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T07:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/22\/its-an-act-of-hope-the-fairytale-rise-of-the-real-kashmir-football-team"},"modified":"2019-08-22T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T07:42:11","slug":"its-an-act-of-hope-the-fairytale-rise-of-the-real-kashmir-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7537","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s an act of hope&#8217;: the fairytale rise of the Real Kashmir football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 90 minutes, while their team plays, people of the war-torn Indian region of Kashmir forget curfews and protests and enjoy normality<\/p>\n<p>Before an away match, Mohammed Hammad used to call his mother in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir and ask her to pray for the team, Real Kashmir, a football club in the city whose miraculous rise in three years has made football-mad Kashmiris proud.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the team was playing Goa FC at Kalyani stadium outside Kolkata for an important match but he didn\u2019t call his mother. Or rather, he couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/22\/its-an-act-of-hope-the-fairytale-rise-of-the-real-kashmir-football-team\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 90 minutes, while their team plays, people of the war-torn Indian region of Kashmir forget curfews and protests and enjoy normalityBefore an away match, Mohammed Hammad used to call his mother in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir and ask her &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"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":[627,62,432,61,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-india","category-kashmir","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","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\/7537","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\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7538,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions\/7538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}