{"id":20841,"date":"2019-12-17T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p07y5dd1"},"modified":"2019-12-17T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:03:00","slug":"the-rainbow-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/12\/17\/the-rainbow-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rainbow Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"Jane and Patricia fled their home in the middle of the night. Days before they had narrowly escaped an arson attack. It\u2019s illegal to be gay in Barbados. You can be sent to prison for life. Now they needed out. A few months before they had reached out to an organisation in Canada, the Rainbow Railroad which helps move gay people, persecuted for their sexuality, to safety. After the arson attack Jane and Patricia contacted them again - \u201cPlease help us now\u201d. In Canada, the team leapt into action. In collaboration with CBC\u2019s The Doc Project, presenter Acey Rowe picks up the story as the women pack to board a flight to an uncertain future.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07y5dd1\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane and Patricia fled their home in the middle of the night. Days before they had narrowly escaped an arson attack. It\u2019s illegal to be gay in Barbados. You can be sent to prison for life. Now they needed out. A few months before they had reached out t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"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\/20841"}],"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\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598680,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841\/revisions\/1598680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}