{"id":29953,"date":"2020-02-14T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29953"},"modified":"2020-02-14T09:31:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:31:41","slug":"no-girl-is-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29953","title":{"rendered":"'No girl is safe'"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/girl-safe-mothers-ironing-daughters-breasts-200128130832821.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark\">Ogoja, Nigeria<\/a> - For most children, their birthday is a time of celebration. But that was not the case for Mirabel when she turned 10. <\/p>\n<p>For Mirabel, a Cameroonian refugee living in Nigeria, turning 10 marked the start of gruelling daily torture - having her breasts ironed with hot stones by her mother. <\/p>\n<p>Every morning, a neighbour from the refugee community where she lives in Ogoja, in Nigeria's southeastern Cross River State, holds her legs firmly in place while her mother takes a burning hot pestle straight from the fire and presses it against her daughter's chest in an attempt to flatten her breasts. <\/p>\n<p>The procedure can be repeated for months, or even years, and is intended to either stop young girls developing breasts or to flatten them once they have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don't even...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ogoja, Nigeria - For most children, their birthday is a time of celebration. But that was not the case for Mirabel when she turned 10. For Mirabel, a Cameroonian refugee living in Nigeria, turning 10 marked the start of gruelling daily torture - having her breasts ironed with hot stones by her mother. Every morning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29954,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29953\/revisions\/29954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}