{"id":36304,"date":"2021-09-02T22:02:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/02\/some-slept-some-cried-all-were-now-refugees-inside-one-of-the-last-afghan-airlifts"},"modified":"2021-09-02T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T13:02:03","slug":"some-slept-some-cried-all-were-now-refugees-inside-one-of-the-last-afghan-airlifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36304","title":{"rendered":"Some slept, some cried, all were now refugees: inside one of the last Afghan airlifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those on board the cramped military plane weren\u2019t granted a last glimpse of their homeland before the difficult journey ahead, while all knew thousands still waited desperately below<\/p>\n<p>The American marine shouted \u201cpush!\u201d. And hundreds of people did, shoving inside the Boeing C-17 military aircraft; tumbling over, then pulling their bodies into tight huddles on the floor to let as many others in as possible.<\/p>\n<p>As the rear door closed and the deafening engines started, lifting the heavy plane off the runway at Kabul\u2019s international airport, people broke down wailing; crying. Now refugees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/02\/some-slept-some-cried-all-were-now-refugees-inside-one-of-the-last-afghan-airlifts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those on board the cramped military plane weren\u2019t granted a last glimpse of their homeland before the difficult journey ahead, while all knew thousands still waited desperately belowThe American marine shouted \u201cpush!\u201d. And hundreds of people did, shovi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"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":[46,59,471,212,524,494,61,44,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-islamic-state","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-qatar","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-military","category-us-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\/36304","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\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36305,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions\/36305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}