{"id":35556,"date":"2021-08-20T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/20\/please-help-get-us-out-plight-of-afghan-chef-who-worked-at-british-embassy"},"modified":"2021-08-20T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T05:00:26","slug":"please-help-get-us-out-plight-of-afghan-chef-who-worked-at-british-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35556","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Please help get us out\u2019: plight of Afghan chef who worked at British embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family appeals to Boris Johnson in case that raises questions about criteria for evacuation<\/p>\n<p>An Afghan man who worked in the kitchen at the British embassy in Kabul for seven years has appealed to Boris Johnson to save him and his family from the Taliban, who he says are hunting him down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really scared, frightened. We have not been outside our house for four days. Every sound at the door makes us fear for our lives,\u201d said Ahmad, who lives not far from the airport but is scared to travel there with his wife and three children, aged 22, 17 and 11.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/20\/please-help-get-us-out-plight-of-afghan-chef-who-worked-at-british-embassy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family appeals to Boris Johnson in case that raises questions about criteria for evacuationAn Afghan man who worked in the kitchen at the British embassy in Kabul for seven years has appealed to Boris Johnson to save him and his family from the Taliban&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2428,"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":[46,531,319,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-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\/35556","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\/2428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35557,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35556\/revisions\/35557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}