{"id":20889,"date":"2019-10-22T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p07rnctx"},"modified":"2019-10-22T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:15:00","slug":"looking-for-love-the-zoroastrian-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/10\/22\/looking-for-love-the-zoroastrian-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for love: The Zoroastrian way"},"content":{"rendered":"The Zoroastrian community has given the world Freddie Mercury, produced some of India\u2019s richest businessmen and practises one of the world\u2019s oldest religions, Zoroastrianism. Yet the community faces extinction: there are less than 200,000 Zoroastrians left worldwide. Shazneen is one of them. She is 31, lives in London and is on the lookout for someone to settle down with. The problem? Members of her small community can only marry other Zoroastrians.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07rnctx\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zoroastrian community has given the world Freddie Mercury, produced some of India\u2019s richest businessmen and practises one of the world\u2019s oldest religions, Zoroastrianism. Yet the community faces extinction: there are less than 200,000 Zoroastrians &#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\/20889"}],"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=20889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598704,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889\/revisions\/1598704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}