{"id":14683,"date":"2013-08-01T14:14:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14683"},"modified":"2013-08-01T14:14:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T21:14:25","slug":"lady-in-black-the-burka-avenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/lady-in-black-the-burka-avenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady in Black: The Burka Avenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8pdbshf4iPE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8pdbshf4iPE\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The audience isn&#8217;t you and me, of course. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/07\/31\/207288030\/lady-in-black-burka-avenger-fights-for-pakistans-girls\" target=\"_blank\">little girls in Pakistan<\/a> who are suffering under religious fanaticism. The trailer&#8217;s in English, but the actual series is in Urdu.<\/p>\n<p>(And yeah, the fact that the Avenger chooses to wear a burka has been addressed. It&#8217;s not a symbol of oppression if you choose it &#8212; and use it as the Lady in Black does.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty cool. (Source) The audience isn&#8217;t you and me, of course. It&#8217;s little girls in Pakistan who are suffering under religious fanaticism. The trailer&#8217;s in English, but the actual series is in Urdu. (And yeah, the fact that the Avenger chooses to wear a burka has been addressed. It&#8217;s not a symbol of oppression if you choose it &#8212; and use it as the Lady in Black does.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-mind-and-spirit","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}