{"id":10631,"date":"2021-01-20T03:09:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T03:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/20\/kyrgyz-teacher-scratches-out-a-living-in-a-coal-mine-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T03:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T03:09:42","slug":"kyrgyz-teacher-scratches-out-a-living-in-a-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/kyrgyz-teacher-scratches-out-a-living-in-a-coal-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyz Teacher Scratches Out A Living In A Coal Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"pJSs-_tVEps\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>Tair Borubaev has been working as a coal miner for eight years in the Suluktu coalfield in southern Kyrgyzstan. It&#8217;s the oldest operational coalfield in Central Asia. He&#8217;s a qualified teacher, but says a teacher&#8217;s salary won&#8217;t feed his family, so he instead heads underground to work.<br \/>\nOriginally published at &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/kyrgyz-teacher-scratches-out-a-living-in-a-coal-mine\/31048078.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/kyrgyz-teacher-scratches-out-a-living-in-a-coal-mine\/31048078.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/20\/kyrgyz-teacher-scratches-out-a-living-in-a-coal-mine-2\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tair Borubaev has been working as a coal miner for eight years in the Suluktu coalfield in southern Kyrgyzstan. It\u2019s the oldest operational coalfield in Central Asia. He\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10632,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631\/revisions\/10632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}