{"id":11164,"date":"2017-09-27T11:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/?p=11164"},"modified":"2017-09-27T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:42:43","slug":"saudi-arabia-driving-ban-on-women-to-be-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/saudi-arabia-driving-ban-on-women-to-be-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia driving ban on women to be lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman has issued a decree allowing women to drive for the first time, to the joy of activists.<\/p>\n<p>The Gulf kingdom is the only country in the world that bans women from driving.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, only men were allowed licences and women who drove in public risked being arrested and fined.<\/p>\n<p>Praise for the move has been pouring in from inside Saudi Arabia, as well as around the world. US President Donald Trump said it was a &#8220;positive step&#8221; towards promoting women&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigner Sahar Nassif told the BBC from Jeddah that she was &#8220;very, very excited &#8211; jumping up and down and laughing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to buy my dream car, a convertible Mustang, and it&#8217;s going to be black and yellow!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>bbc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman has issued a decree allowing women to drive for the first time, to the joy of activists. The Gulf kingdom is the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11166,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164\/revisions\/11166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwrcegypt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}