{"id":36158,"date":"2021-08-30T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/shoeless-shivering-passing-out-afghan-refugees-arrive-in-the-uk"},"modified":"2021-08-30T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T05:00:26","slug":"shoeless-shivering-passing-out-afghan-refugees-arrive-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36158","title":{"rendered":"Shoeless, shivering, passing out: Afghan refugees arrive in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Cross leaders describe scenes of \u2018absolute chaos\u2019 at airports but praise extraordinary dignity of the people<\/p>\n<p>They arrived shoeless and shivering, with some toddlers wearing the same nappies they wore when fleeing their homes days earlier. Volunteers have described the extraordinary dignity and stoicism of the Afghan refugees, including about 2,200 children, who were airlifted to the UK out of the clutches of the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the new arrivals were passing out from exhaustion in airport terminals, said Dara Leonard, a team leader for the British Red Cross. Others, including pregnant women and \u201cthe sick and incredibly frail\u201d were rushed straight to hospital.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/shoeless-shivering-passing-out-afghan-refugees-arrive-in-the-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Cross leaders describe scenes of \u2018absolute chaos\u2019 at airports but praise extraordinary dignity of the peopleThey arrived shoeless and shivering, with some toddlers wearing the same nappies they wore when fleeing their homes days earlier. Volunteers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2507,"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":[46,494,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-refugees","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\/36158","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\/2507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36159,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36158\/revisions\/36159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}