{"id":18244,"date":"2018-10-13T00:25:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T00:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18244"},"modified":"2018-10-13T00:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T00:25:22","slug":"half-a-million-kenyans-are-partially-or-fully-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18244","title":{"rendered":"Half a million Kenyans are partially or fully blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"61.9358108108\">\n<p>At least half a million people in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/Kenya.html\">Kenya<\/a> are blind or visually impaired.<\/p>\n<p>The high cost of seeking treatment in a hospital or with an MD means many Kenyans turn to traditional healers, who play an important role in serving the rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Catherine Soi reports from Homa Bay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least half a million people in Kenya are blind or visually impaired. The high cost of seeking treatment in a hospital or with an MD means many Kenyans turn to traditional healers, who play an important role in serving the rural communities. \u00a0 Al Jazeera&#8217;s Catherine Soi reports from Homa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18244","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\/18244","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=18244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}