{"id":31688,"date":"2021-05-03T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/03\/my-australian-husband-is-stuck-in-india-all-i-want-is-to-know-he-can-come-home"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:22:54","slug":"my-australian-husband-is-stuck-in-india-all-i-want-is-to-know-he-can-come-home-narita-nagin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31688","title":{"rendered":"My Australian husband is stuck in India. All I want is to know he can come home | Narita Nagin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be a citizen?<strong> <\/strong>Is Australia a fair-weather friend, only there for you in the good times?<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government\u2019s drastic decision to temporarily stop all travellers from India entering Australia has me in tears almost every night, struggling to cope with the uncertainty of when I\u2019ll see my husband again.<\/p>\n<p>Before he departed Australia for India in March, I was stressed knowing that repatriation flights were few and far between. But he managed to convince both me and the Australian government (that granted him a travel exemption) that he had to go to visit and care for his mum, his only surviving parent, who is suffering from stage-four cancer. Knowing him, his kindness and conscientiousness, I knew that it wasn\u2019t really a choice for him to be at his dying mother\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/03\/my-australian-husband-is-stuck-in-india-all-i-want-is-to-know-he-can-come-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be a citizen? Is Australia a fair-weather friend, only there for you in the good times?The Australian government\u2019s drastic decision to temporarily stop all travellers from India entering Australia has me in tears almost every night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2153,"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":[43,2157,1066,77,346,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-citizenship","category-coronavirus","category-family","category-health","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688","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\/2153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31689,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688\/revisions\/31689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}