{"id":8111,"date":"2014-12-19T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/19\/amir-khan-to-donate-shorts\/"},"modified":"2014-12-19T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T13:36:47","slug":"amir-khan-to-donate-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/19\/amir-khan-to-donate-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Amir Khan to Donate Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>30k Shorts Will Go Towards Peshawar Disaster <\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"458\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"191\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/Gallery\/amir-khan-donate-shorts-458x191.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBolton\u2019s Amir Khan has said that he will be donating his boxing shorts, worth \u00a330,000, to the disaster relief in Peshawar. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe donated money will go towards rebuilding the army school where 141 children and staff were killed by the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 28-year-old-Boxer had worn the shorts,\u00a0which have a waistband made from 24-carat gold threading, in his\u00a0points win against Devon Alexander.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;It was just very sad to see\u00a0innocent kids being killed,&#8221;\u00a0said Khan.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;I want to donate the shorts for the Peshawar cause, rebuild a school and strengthen security around the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;We are very lucky in England,&#8221;\u00a0Khan told BBC Radio 5 live.\u00a0&#8220;We have good security and I will be able to send my little girl to school and know she will be fine, but in Pakistan you cannot do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;They send the kids outside the house and do not know if they are going to come back. It&#8217;s very sad to know that.&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30k Shorts Will Go Towards Peshawar Disaster &#13; Bolton\u2019s Amir Khan has said that he will be donating his boxing shorts, worth \u00a330,000, to the disaster relief in Peshawar. &#13; The donated money will go towards rebuilding the army school where 141 children and staff were killed by the Taliban. &#13; The 28-year-old-Boxer had worn [&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-8111","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\/8111","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=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/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=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}