{"id":402585,"date":"2021-03-01T12:45:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402585"},"modified":"2021-03-01T12:45:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:15:45","slug":"iraqs-trailblazing-oil-women-in-oil-rich-country-few-girls-buck-norms-to-take-rig-site-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iraqs-trailblazing-oil-women-in-oil-rich-country-few-girls-buck-norms-to-take-rig-site-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s trailblazing oil women: In oil-rich country, few girls buck norms to take rig site jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BASRA: It&#8217;s nearly dawn and Zainab Amjad has been up all night working on an oil rig in southern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>She lowers a sensor into the black depths of a well until sonar waves detect the presence of the crude that fuels her country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the oil-rich province of Basra, Ayat Rawthan is supervising the assembly of large drill pipes.<\/p>\n<p>These will bore into the Earth and send crucial data on rock formations to screens sitting a few meters (feet) away that she will decipher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BASRA: It&#8217;s nearly dawn and Zainab Amjad has been up all night working on an oil rig in southern Iraq. She lowers a sensor into the black depths of a well until sonar waves detect the presence of the crude that fuels her country&#8217;s economy. Elsewhere in the oil-rich province of Basra, Ayat Rawthan is supervising the assembly of large drill pipes. These will bore into the Earth and send crucial data on rock formations to screens sitting a few meters (feet) away that she will decipher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}