{"id":733,"date":"2007-11-30T20:15:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T19:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=733"},"modified":"2007-11-30T20:15:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T19:15:34","slug":"how-the-taliban-treated-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"How the Taliban treated women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just read &#8220;The Kite Runner&#8221; &#8211; the first novel written by Khaled Hosseini [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#TKR\">here<\/a>] &#8211; I&#8217;m now reading &#8220;A Thousand Splendid Suns&#8221;, the second novel by this master storyteller.<br \/>\nEven more than the first book, this work spells out what it has been like to live in Afghanistan in the last few decades. I&#8217;ve reached the part of the novel that deals with the period of the Taliban.<br \/>\nIt pays to remember <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taliban_treatment_of_women\">how the Taliban treated women<\/a> in the so-called name of Islam &#8211; not least because the Taliban is far from defeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just read &#8220;The Kite Runner&#8221; &#8211; the first novel written by Khaled Hosseini [my review here] &#8211; I&#8217;m now reading &#8220;A Thousand Splendid Suns&#8221;, the second novel by this master storyteller. Even more than the first book, this work spells out what it has been like to live in Afghanistan in the last few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}