{"id":1220,"date":"2004-08-04T07:22:42","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T14:22:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-08-04T07:22:42","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T14:22:42","slug":"the-woman-who-would-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/04\/the-woman-who-would-be-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woman Who Would Be President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Massouda Jalal&#8217;s quest to be Afghanistan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/asia\/story.jsp?story=547683\">president<\/a> sounds even more improbable than Sean Connery&#8217;s in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/630469864X\/antiwarbookstore\/\">The Man Who Would Be King <\/a>(a great movie). But her ideas are admirable, and she is an actual Afghani, not one remodeled in America. Imagine that: an Afghani who wants democracy and peace and who doesn&#8217;t need the US to guide her thinking along these lines; they are her own ideas. Sigh, her chances are clearly nil&#8230;but it&#8217;s a daring vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Massouda Jalal&#8217;s quest to be Afghanistan&#8217;s president sounds even more improbable than Sean Connery&#8217;s in The Man Who Would Be King (a great movie). But her ideas are admirable, and she is an actual Afghani, not one remodeled in America. Imagine that: an Afghani who wants democracy and peace and who doesn&#8217;t need the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}