{"id":792,"date":"2008-11-28T01:24:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T06:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/11\/28\/story-of-courage\/"},"modified":"2008-11-28T01:24:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T06:24:39","slug":"story-of-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/28\/story-of-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Of Courage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The account of Sjida&#8217;s life is inspiring, Do read the whole thing! My prayers are for the people still in bondage, any form of bondage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sajida is a 29-year-old college-educated woman from a Christian family here <strong>(and a reminder that oppressive values in Pakistan are not rooted just in Islam)<\/strong>. She scandalized her family by marrying a man she chose herself \u2014 and then becoming pregnant.<br \/>\nThe next step was brutal: Several women held Sajida down as a midwife conducted an abortion, while she struggled and wept.<br \/>\nThen her brothers weighed what to do next. Sajida\u2019s eldest brother wanted to sell her to a trafficker who offered $1,200, presumably intending to imprison her inside a brothel. Two other brothers just wanted to kill her.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/27\/opinion\/27kristof.html?hp\">Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; Giving Thanks to Heroes &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The account of Sjida&#8217;s life is inspiring, Do read the whole thing! My prayers are for the people still in bondage, any form of bondage. Sajida is a 29-year-old college-educated woman from a Christian family here (and a reminder that oppressive values in Pakistan are not rooted just in Islam). She scandalized her family by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/28\/story-of-courage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Story Of Courage!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}