{"id":35445,"date":"2021-08-18T14:30:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/afghanistan-kabul-airport-escape-journalist"},"modified":"2021-08-18T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T05:30:45","slug":"we-kept-on-hearing-gunshots-my-chaotic-escape-from-kabuls-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35445","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We kept on hearing gunshots\u2019: my chaotic escape from Kabul\u2019s airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan journalist Ramin Rahman, 27, left on a US military plane at Hamid Karzai international airport<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/taliban-declares-war-is-over-in-afghanistan-as-us-led-forces-exit-kabul\">The day the Taliban took over<\/a> started with a call from my friend in Germany. He told me to get to the airport because there was potentially going to be a German embassy evacuation plane leaving that day. He put my name on their evacuation list because I had worked for German media, and I had been in the process of applying for a visa for the past year.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/kabul-airport-chaos-and-panic-as-afghans-and-foreigners-attempt-to-flee-the-capital\">Kabul airport: footage appears to show Afghans falling from plane after takeoff<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/afghanistan-kabul-airport-escape-journalist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan journalist Ramin Rahman, 27, left on a US military plane at Hamid Karzai international airportThe day the Taliban took over started with a call from my friend in Germany. He told me to get to the airport because there was potentially going to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2413,"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-35445","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\/35445","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\/2413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35446,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445\/revisions\/35446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}