{"id":35824,"date":"2021-08-24T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T03:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/24\/time-matters-the-nz-families-desperate-to-save-loved-ones-trapped-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T03:33:11","slug":"time-matters-the-nz-families-desperate-to-save-loved-ones-trapped-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35824","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Time matters\u2019: the NZ families desperate to save loved ones trapped in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealanders, visa holders and others are struggling to battle through chaotic crowds and red tape to reach planes to carry them home<\/p>\n<p>As New Zealand begins to evacuate people from Afghanistan, those awaiting evacuation say they are struggling to reach the planes that would carry them to safety, and growing \u201cmore desperate with each passing day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccess into Kabul airport is extremely difficult and travel into Kabul from the provinces is almost impossible,\u201d minister of defence, Peeni Henare, said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/24\/time-matters-the-nz-families-desperate-to-save-loved-ones-trapped-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealanders, visa holders and others are struggling to battle through chaotic crowds and red tape to reach planes to carry them homeAs New Zealand begins to evacuate people from Afghanistan, those awaiting evacuation say they are struggling to reach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[46,41,56,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/35824","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35825,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35824\/revisions\/35825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}