{"id":20903,"date":"2019-10-09T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p07qgb9q"},"modified":"2019-10-09T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T11:05:00","slug":"translating-for-mum-and-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/10\/09\/translating-for-mum-and-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Translating for mum and dad"},"content":{"rendered":"Across the UK, in supermarkets, hospitals, council houses and solicitors\u2019 offices, children and young people are doing vital unpaid work: interpreting for their parents. Psychologist and former child migrant Humera Iqbal takes us inside the lives of Britain\u2019s young translators as they try to make the most of their childhood and teenage years while shouldering adult responsibilities \u2013 from dealing with the landlord to taking mum for a smear test.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07qgb9q\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the UK, in supermarkets, hospitals, council houses and solicitors\u2019 offices, children and young people are doing vital unpaid work: interpreting for their parents. Psychologist and former child migrant Humera Iqbal takes us inside the lives of Br&#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\/20903"}],"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=20903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598711,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions\/1598711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}