{"id":2132,"date":"2007-06-30T08:33:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T08:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2007-06-30T08:34:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T08:34:43","slug":"one-tragedy-may-lead-to-an-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2132","title":{"rendered":"One tragedy may lead to an advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt has _finally_ <a href = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/egypt\/story\/0,,2115290,00.html\">fully banned<\/a> (it says anyway) female genital mutilation after a 12-year-old died during the operation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2005, research by Unicef found that 96% of Egyptian women aged 15 to 49 who had ever been married reported they had been circumcised. The Egyptian government says a more recent study found 50.3% of girls aged 10 to 18 had been circumcised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even on the government&#8217;s figure there is still a very, very long way to go, but maybe the death of Budour Ahmad Shaker will help to educate parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt has _finally_ fully banned (it says anyway) female genital mutilation after a 12-year-old died during the operation. In 2005, research by Unicef found that 96% of Egyptian women aged 15 to 49 who had ever been married reported they had been circumcised. The Egyptian government says a more recent study found 50.3% of girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}