{"id":257295,"date":"2017-02-02T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T20:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/?p=100630"},"modified":"2017-02-02T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T20:19:48","slug":"shocking-maharashtra-sociology-text-book-families-pay-dowry-when-the-girl-is-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/02\/02\/shocking-maharashtra-sociology-text-book-families-pay-dowry-when-the-girl-is-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Maharashtra Sociology text book \u2018Families pay dowry when the girl is ugly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Feb 2 : A paragraph in a class 12 Sociology text book published by the Maharashtra State Education Board, that states &#8220;ugliness of the girl&#8221; as one of the reasons why families pay dowry, simply beggars belief and ends up doing the opposite of its intended purpose \u2014 of creating awareness about the obnoxious social practice.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/shocking-maharashtra-sociology-text-book-families-pay-dowry-when-the-girl-is-ugly\/\">http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/shocking-maharashtra-sociology-text-book-families-pay-dowry-when-the-girl-is-ugly\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Feb 2 : A paragraph in a class 12 Sociology text book published by the Maharashtra State Education Board, that states &#8220;ugliness of the girl&#8221; as one of the reasons why families pay dowry, simply beggars belief and ends up doing the opposite of its intended purpose &mdash; of creating awareness about the obnoxious social practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"sangaiexpress","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3942],"tags":[40,168,3945],"class_list":["post-257295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-sangaiexpress","hentry","category-news","category-sangaiexpress","tag-headlines","tag-maharashtra","tag-sangaiexpress","post_format-sangaiexpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257299,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257295\/revisions\/257299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}