{"id":36177,"date":"2021-08-30T17:40:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T08:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/ex-marine-pen-farthing-sorry-for-expletive-laden-message-over-kabul-evacuation"},"modified":"2021-08-30T17:40:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T08:40:01","slug":"ex-marine-sorry-for-expletive-laden-message-over-afghan-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36177","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Marine sorry for expletive-laden message over Afghan evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Marine had accused government aide of \u2018blocking\u2019 efforts to evacuate dogs and cats from animal shelter<\/p>\n<p>A former Royal Marine has admitted his emotions \u201cgot the better\u201d of him when he left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/aug\/28\/animal-rescuer-threatened-mod-aide-for-blocking-kabul-evacuation\">an expletive-laden message<\/a> for a government aide while trying to evacuate about 170 dogs and cats from an animal shelter in Afghanistan to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Paul \u201cPen\u201d Farthing arrived at London\u2019s Heathrow airport in a privately funded charter flight at about 7.30am on Sunday, after his Operation Ark campaign to get workers and animals from the Nowzad shelter in Kabul out of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/ex-marine-pen-farthing-sorry-for-expletive-laden-message-over-kabul-evacuation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Marine had accused government aide of \u2018blocking\u2019 efforts to evacuate dogs and cats from animal shelterA former Royal Marine has admitted his emotions \u201cgot the better\u201d of him when he left an expletive-laden message for a government aide while trying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"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":[46,265,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-animals","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36177","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\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36178,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36177\/revisions\/36178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}