{"id":27529,"date":"2018-12-31T13:23:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27529"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:23:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:23:23","slug":"senegal-basketball-female-team-making-bold-strides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27529","title":{"rendered":"Senegal basketball: Female team making bold strides"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"73.0095602294\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/senegal.html\">Senegal<\/a>&#8216;s female basketball team, called the Lionesses, made history in October, edging closer to winning the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>With a new female NBA women&#8217;s training facility in the country, the sport is gaining popularity, especially among girls.<\/p>\n<p>In a country where many girls are married at a young age, the success of the women&#8217;s national basketball team is challenging traditional views. Defiant, more and more girls are going out to play instead of staying at home.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Nicolas Haque reports from the city of Thies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal&#8217;s female basketball team, called the Lionesses, made history in October, edging closer to winning the World Cup. With a new female NBA women&#8217;s training facility in the country, the sport is gaining popularity, especially among girls. In a country where many girls are married at a young age, the success of the women&#8217;s national&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27529","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\/27529","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=27529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}