{"id":1819,"date":"2012-10-30T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2013-01-13T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:13:03","slug":"uppity-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/uppity-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Uppity girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kairosphotos.photoshelter.com\/image\/I0000RLI033Y8L1o\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pak05lhecop-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pakistani girls in school\" width=\"900\" height=\"606\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1670\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pak05lhecop-27.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pak05lhecop-27-590x397.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s an image from a chemistry class at St Peter&#39;s College for Women in Lahore, Pakistan. It&#39;s a school for poor girls from the countryside, sponsored by the Church of Pakistan. I thought of visiting schools like this in Pakistan when reading about Malala Yousufzai, the courageous 15-year old girl who was shot by the Taliban on October 9, targeted because she dared to demand education for girls. The education of girls and women was a priority from the beginning for Methodist missionaries and others who went to the region in the 19th Century, and schools like St. Peter&#39;s remain as a legacy of that empowerment, no matter how troubling they are to those who want to push girls back in the house, out of sight. <em>May you recover well, Malala.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s an image from a chemistry class at St Peter&#39;s College for Women in Lahore, Pakistan. It&#39;s a school for poor girls from the countryside, sponsored by the Church of Pakistan. I thought of visiting schools like this in Pakistan when reading about Malala Yousufzai, the courageous 15-year old girl who was shot by the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}