{"id":35893,"date":"2021-08-25T17:25:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/hope-ex-marine-rescue-cats-dogs-animals-kabul-paul-farthing"},"modified":"2021-08-25T17:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:25:56","slug":"fresh-hope-for-ex-marines-efforts-to-rescue-200-cats-and-dogs-from-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35893","title":{"rendered":"Fresh hope for ex-marine\u2019s efforts to rescue 200 cats and dogs from Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK defence secretary says Paul Farthing, his team and animals can leave on chartered plane<\/p>\n<p>A former Royal Marine who has been campaigning to have dozens of people and hundreds of animals at his sanctuary evacuated from Afghanistan has been offered a glimmer of hope after the defence secretary said UK officials would help.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Farthing, known as Pen, had already been given authorisation to get his people out but continued working with supporters to secure safe passage for 140 dogs and 60 cats they were caring for at the Nowzad shelter he founded in Kabul after serving with the British army in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/hope-ex-marine-rescue-cats-dogs-animals-kabul-paul-farthing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK defence secretary says Paul Farthing, his team and animals can leave on chartered planeA former Royal Marine who has been campaigning to have dozens of people and hundreds of animals at his sanctuary evacuated from Afghanistan has been offered a gli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2474,"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":[46,586,265,1808,717,938,2290,4,494,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-ben-wallace","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-military","category-ministry-of-defence","category-politics","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/35893","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\/2474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35894,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35893\/revisions\/35894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}