{"id":25265,"date":"2020-12-01T14:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T05:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/dec\/01\/photo-reveals-australian-soldier-drinking-dead-taliban-prosthetic-leg"},"modified":"2020-12-01T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T05:57:44","slug":"photo-reveals-australian-soldier-drinking-beer-out-of-dead-taliban-fighters-prosthetic-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25265","title":{"rendered":"Photo reveals Australian soldier drinking beer out of dead Taliban fighter&#8217;s prosthetic leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive: <\/strong>Image obtained by Guardian Australia shows limb being used to down drinks in a special forces bar in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>Senior Australian special forces soldiers drank beer out of the prosthetic leg of a dead Taliban soldier at an unauthorised bar in Afghanistan \u2013 with a photograph of the act being revealed for the first time by Guardian Australia.<\/p>\n<p>A number of photographs obtained by the Guardian show one senior soldier \u2013 who is still serving \u2013 sculling from the leg in an unofficial bar known as the Fat Lady\u2019s Arms, which was set up inside Australia\u2019s special forces base in Tarin Kowt, the capital of Uruzgan province, in 2009.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/dec\/01\/photo-reveals-australian-soldier-drinking-dead-taliban-prosthetic-leg\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Image obtained by Guardian Australia shows limb being used to down drinks in a special forces bar in AfghanistanSenior Australian special forces soldiers drank beer out of the prosthetic leg of a dead Taliban soldier at an unauthorised bar i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1707,"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":[46,43,1585,324,1759,61,44,83,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-military","category-australian-politics","category-brereton-report","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-war-crimes","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\/25265","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\/1707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25266,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25265\/revisions\/25266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}