{"id":35168,"date":"2021-08-14T01:21:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/seven-days-that-shook-afghanistan-how-city-after-city-fell-to-the-taliban"},"modified":"2021-08-14T01:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T16:21:24","slug":"seven-days-that-shook-afghanistan-how-city-after-city-fell-to-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35168","title":{"rendered":"Seven days that shook Afghanistan: how city after city fell to the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rout of government forces beginning in city of Zaranj has left country in chaos and western leaders looking on in dismay<\/p>\n<p>The end for Afghan forces in the south-western provincial capital of Zaranj, a trading hub close to the Iranian border, was announced by a Taliban commander. Except that he framed it as a start, and an ominous one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the beginning,\u201d he declared in a statement. \u201cSee how other provinces fall in our hands very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/seven-days-that-shook-afghanistan-how-city-after-city-fell-to-the-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rout of government forces beginning in city of Zaranj has left country in chaos and western leaders looking on in dismayThe end for Afghan forces in the south-western provincial capital of Zaranj, a trading hub close to the Iranian border, was announce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/35168","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35169,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35168\/revisions\/35169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}