{"id":53467,"date":"2016-02-24T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_mag-_the_girl_who_said_no_to_marriage\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T15:28:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:28:23","slug":"bbc_mag-_the_girl_who_said_no_to_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53467","title":{"rendered":"(BBC Mag.) The girl who said &#39;no&#39; to marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Balkissa Chaibou dreamed of becoming a doctor, but when she was 12 she was shocked to learn she had been promised as a bride to her cousin. She decided to fight for her rights &#8211; even if that meant taking her own family to court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I came from school at around 18:00, and Mum called me,&#8221; Balkissa Chaibou recalls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She pointed to a group of visitors and said of one of them, &#8216;He is the one who will marry you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought she was joking. And she told me, &#8216;Go unbraid, and wash your hair.&#8217; That is when I realised she was serious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-35464262\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balkissa Chaibou dreamed of becoming a doctor, but when she was 12 she was shocked to learn she had been promised as a bride to her cousin. She decided to fight for her rights &#8211; even if that meant taking<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53467\">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":[39,50,202,175,101,168,98,538,177,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-niger","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53467","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=53467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}