{"id":14973,"date":"2018-09-13T20:23:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14973"},"modified":"2018-09-13T20:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:23:50","slug":"disadvantaged-girls-change-their-communities-by-learning-to-code-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14973","title":{"rendered":"Disadvantaged girls change their communities by learning to code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)<\/cite>Sharon Okpoe has lived her entire 17 years in Makoko\u2014known as the world&#8217;s largest &#8220;floating slum&#8221;\u2014built on a lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Rickety shacks stand on stilts in the polluted water. Canoes are required transportation through the maze of narrow canals. Okpoe&#8217;s father is a fisherman, and her mother sells smoked fish, eking out a living on the fringes of Africa&#8217;s largest city.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Lagos has a thriving economy built on oil, finance and manufacturing. And the city is now considered Nigeria&#8217;s Silicon Valley, with Facebook and Google opening offices there earlier this year.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Sharon Okpoe has lived her entire 17 years in Makoko\u2014known as the world&#8217;s largest &#8220;floating slum&#8221;\u2014built on a lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria.Rickety shacks stand on stilts in the polluted water. Canoes are required transportation through the maze of narrow canals. Okpoe&#8217;s father is a fisherman, and her mother sells smoked fish, eking out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973","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=14973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}