{"id":60656,"date":"2017-06-07T18:23:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T22:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60656"},"modified":"2017-06-07T18:23:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T22:23:59","slug":"ct-cover-story-how-christians-in-cambodia-are-drawing-attention-to-labor-trafficking-and-the-quiet-power-of-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60656","title":{"rendered":"(CT Cover Story) How Christians in Cambodia are drawing attention to labor trafficking and the quiet power of prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a shelter in Cambodia, 16-year-old girl points to the scar where she tried to slit her wrist with a broken plate.<\/p>\n<p>Two years before, she left her province when offered a job as a cleaning lady in South Korea. Instead, she was sold into marriage in Beijing, where her new husband kept her locked up and demanded she give him a child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like hell,\u201d she tells CT through a translator. \u201cI just wanted to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When she got pregnant soon after, the teen bride escaped at her first doctor\u2019s appointment and contacted her friends 2,000 miles away, who called a hotline to arrange her rescue and repatriation. She and her 11-month-old daughter live in a home operated by Agape International Missions (AIM), among dorm-style bunk beds with about 50 other girls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2017\/june\/worlds-biggest-trafficking-problem-labor-cambodia.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a shelter in Cambodia, 16-year-old girl points to the scar where she tried to slit her wrist with a broken plate. Two years before, she left her province when offered a job as a cleaning lady in South Korea.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60656\">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":[493,112,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambodia","category-sexuality","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60656","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=60656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60657,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60656\/revisions\/60657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}