{"id":13859,"date":"2020-02-07T03:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/us-citizen-kidnap-afghanistan"},"modified":"2020-02-07T03:57:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:57:37","slug":"us-contractor-reportedly-kidnapped-in-eastern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13859","title":{"rendered":"US contractor reportedly kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek says 57-year-old taken last week in eastern Khost province, reportedly by Taliban-linked Haqqani network<\/p>\n<p>A US citizen has been kidnapped in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>\u2019s eastern Khost province, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/sep\/08\/donald-trump-says-he-was-due-to-host-taliban-at-camp-david\">Taliban warns of more US dead after Trump says he cancelled peace talks<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/us-citizen-kidnap-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek says 57-year-old taken last week in eastern Khost province, reportedly by Taliban-linked Haqqani networkA US citizen has been kidnapped in Afghanistan\u2019s eastern Khost province, according to media reports. Related: Taliban warns of more US dead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13860,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13859\/revisions\/13860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}