{"id":31515,"date":"2019-02-02T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31515"},"modified":"2019-02-02T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:22:25","slug":"from-the-terror-of-domestic-abuse-to-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31515","title":{"rendered":"From the terror of domestic abuse to world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>&#8220;He punched me, he kicked me, he elbowed me, he choked me unconscious, he smothered me with pillows, he pinned me down for hours at a time, he destroyed all my belongings, he pulled a knife on me and said he was going to kill me and the boys and then kill himself.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Bec Rawlings, the self-styled &#8220;Queen of bare-knuckle boxing,&#8221; is remembering the terror of living with an abusive husband. Though the 29-year-old Australian doesn&#8217;t cry anymore when talking about her miserable marriage, some wounds will never heal.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Nearly six years on, she can sleep now without fear of being murdered and no longer flinches when touched. &#8220;It gets easier day by day,&#8221; she says candidly. &#8220;I&#8217;m alive, I survived.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)&#8221;He punched me, he kicked me, he elbowed me, he choked me unconscious, he smothered me with pillows, he pinned me down for hours at a time, he destroyed all my belongings, he pulled a knife on me and said he was going to kill me and the boys and then kill himself.&#8221; Bec Rawlings,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31515","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\/31515","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=31515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}