{"id":36253,"date":"2021-09-01T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/01\/afghan-refugees-arrive-us"},"modified":"2021-09-01T21:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:00:30","slug":"we-were-very-lucky-afghan-refugees-arrive-in-us-exhausted-but-relieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36253","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We were very lucky\u2019: Afghan refugees arrive in US, exhausted but relieved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees had been at special risk as they had worked for the US during the war<\/p>\n<p>As he stepped outside the sliding doors at Virginia\u2019s Dulles airport last Wednesday, Abdul Waris allowed himself a moment to smile in relief. It was his first time in the United States, and just days earlier he was at the Hamid Karzai international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, desperately trying to get out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very difficult,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m happy to come here, because over there the situation is very bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/01\/afghan-refugees-arrive-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees had been at special risk as they had worked for the US during the warAs he stepped outside the sliding doors at Virginia\u2019s Dulles airport last Wednesday, Abdul Waris allowed himself a moment to smile in relief. It was his first time in the Uni&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2516,"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":[46,494,61,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-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\/36253","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\/2516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36254,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36253\/revisions\/36254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}