{"id":36392,"date":"2021-09-04T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/sep\/03\/british-troops-metres-away-from-kabul-bomb-blast-given-therapy"},"modified":"2021-09-04T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:00:00","slug":"british-troops-metres-away-from-kabul-bomb-blast-given-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36392","title":{"rendered":"British troops \u2018metres away\u2019 from Kabul bomb blast given therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers say soldiers encouraged to \u2018share feelings and open up\u2019 after trauma of Afghan evacuation<\/p>\n<p>British soldiers were \u201ca matter of metres\u201d from last week\u2019s deadly bomb blast at Kabul airport \u2013 and are taking part in decompression therapy to help deal with any trauma they suffered during the dangerous two-week evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>Commanding officers, speaking for the first time after returning from the Afghan capital, said it was sheer good fortune that prevented British troops from being killed in the attack alongside 170 Afghans and 13 Americans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/sep\/03\/british-troops-metres-away-from-kabul-bomb-blast-given-therapy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers say soldiers encouraged to \u2018share feelings and open up\u2019 after trauma of Afghan evacuationBritish soldiers were \u201ca matter of metres\u201d from last week\u2019s deadly bomb blast at Kabul airport \u2013 and are taking part in decompression therapy to help deal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"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":[46,937,346,744,938,79,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-british-army","category-health","category-mental-health","category-military","category-society","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\/36392","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\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36393,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36392\/revisions\/36393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}