{"id":11156,"date":"2018-08-11T15:24:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11156"},"modified":"2018-08-11T15:24:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T15:24:52","slug":"with-isil-gone-iraqi-kurds-still-battle-a-weak-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11156","title":{"rendered":"With ISIL gone, Iraqi Kurds still battle a weak economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>People living in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq are struggling with a weak economy.<\/p>\n<p>Before the battle to push out ISIL in 2014, the economy was growing and there were high hopes for a surge in foreign investment.<\/p>\n<p>As Al Jazeera&#8217;s Natasha Ghoneim reports from Erbil, there are signs things are improving, but people say not fast enough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People living in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq are struggling with a weak economy. Before the battle to push out ISIL in 2014, the economy was growing and there were high hopes for a surge in foreign investment. As Al Jazeera&#8217;s Natasha Ghoneim reports from Erbil, there are signs things are improving, but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}