{"id":793,"date":"2026-01-02T06:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/i-wasnt-allowed-to-study-but-i-will-make-sure-no-girl-in-this-village-hears-those-same-words\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T06:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:40:07","slug":"i-wasnt-allowed-to-study-but-i-will-make-sure-no-girl-in-this-village-hears-those-same-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/i-wasnt-allowed-to-study-but-i-will-make-sure-no-girl-in-this-village-hears-those-same-words\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I wasn\u2019t allowed to study, but I will make sure no girl in this village hears those same words\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health worker Naushaba Roonjho was ostracised by her family in Pakistan for wanting to work but now she is campaigning for political officeWhen Naushaba Roonjho became the first girl anyone in her district knew to have passed Pakistan\u2019s national secondary school exam, the news was not celebrated. At home, in her village of Sheikh Soomar in southern Sindh, her father told her: \u201cThis is enough, you don\u2019t need to study more. You should stay at home now.\u201dIt was 2010 and Roonjho was 17; within weeks she was married, to Muhammad Uris, a labourer. Although, like all the girls in Thatta district, she had left school after primary, Roonjho had kept up her studies independently. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health worker Naushaba Roonjho was ostracised by her family in Pakistan for wanting to work but now she is campaigning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}