{"id":34730,"date":"2012-09-24T14:40:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/india_slowly_confronts_epidemic_of_missing_children\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:40:22","slug":"india_slowly_confronts_epidemic_of_missing_children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34730","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) India slowly confronts epidemic of missing children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every six minutes, a child goes missing in India.<\/p>\n<p>They are boys like Irfan, drugged and abducted at the age of 9 by two men on a motorbike as he walked home one day after playing with friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was living hell these past two years, trying to figure out where we could find him,\u201d\u009d said his father, Iqbal Ali. \u201cI used to run a biscuit bakery, but from the day he disappeared, I got so caught up trying to meet politicians, police and people who claim to do magic to get children back, that I had to shut down my bakery. I had no time for it.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/india-slowly-confronts-epidemic-of-missing-children\/2012\/09\/22\/395d51b0-fd95-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every six minutes, a child goes missing in India. They are boys like Irfan, drugged and abducted at the age of 9 by two men on a motorbike as he walked home one day after playing with friends. \u201cIt was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34730\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,201,101,168,481,114,578,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-india","category-law-legal-issues","category-policefire","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}