{"id":8108,"date":"2014-12-10T13:28:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T13:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/10\/malala-yousafzai-receives-nobel-peace-prize\/"},"modified":"2014-12-10T13:28:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T13:28:31","slug":"malala-yousafzai-receives-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/10\/malala-yousafzai-receives-nobel-peace-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Malala Yousafzai Receives Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>The &#8220;champion of peace\u201d becomes youngest recipient of the award<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"467\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"184\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/malala-nobel-peace-prize-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai is set to receive the Nobel Peace Prize today in a special ceremony in the presence of King Harald V of Norway in the Norwegian capital of Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Malala, who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan two years ago for her activities in campaigning for the right of girls to attain an education, continues to campaign from her home city of Birmingham through her non-profit organisation called the Malala Fund.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The brave 17-year-old, who is the youngest recipient of the Novel Peace Prize, said, \u201cThis peace prize is very important for me and it has really given me more hope, more courage, and I feel stronger than before because I see many people are with me.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are more responsibilities but I have also put responsibilities on myself. I feel I am answerable to God and to myself and that I should help my community. It\u2019s my duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>She explained that she wants to serve her country and said, \u201cMy dream is that my country becomes a developed country and I see every child get an education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Malala, described as a \u201cchampion of peace\u201d, also revealed today that she would consider pursuing politics as a career, and potentially aspire to be the prime minister of Pakistan one day, if it was the best medium through which to serve her country.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;champion of peace\u201d becomes youngest recipient of the award Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai is set to receive the Nobel Peace Prize today in a special ceremony in the presence of King Harald V of Norway in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. &#13; Malala, who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}