{"id":18986,"date":"2018-10-18T19:26:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18986"},"modified":"2018-10-18T19:26:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:26:14","slug":"afghanistans-shia-lose-hope-the-election-will-bring-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18986","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan&#8217;s Shia lose hope the election will bring change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"63\">\n<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Shia minority has significant sway in politics, holding 20 percent of seats in parliament but this has not given them any confidence in Sunday&#8217;s election. <\/p>\n<p>A series of ISIL attacks targeting them has left them disenchanted with the government.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Charlotte Bellis reports from a Shia neighbourhood in Kabul.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Shia minority has significant sway in politics, holding 20 percent of seats in parliament but this has not given them any confidence in Sunday&#8217;s election. A series of ISIL attacks targeting them has left them disenchanted with the government. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Charlotte Bellis reports from a Shia neighbourhood in Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18986","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\/18986","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=18986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}