{"id":36477,"date":"2021-09-05T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/05\/jason-kander-interview-afghanistan-airlift-veterans-ptsd-podcast-majority-54"},"modified":"2021-09-05T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T06:00:19","slug":"the-intensity-has-not-changed-jason-kander-on-the-fall-of-afghanistan-and-trying-to-get-friends-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36477","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The intensity has not changed\u2019: Jason Kander on the fall of Afghanistan \u2013 and trying to get friends out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Democrat has been described as a possible president \u2013 but for now he\u2019s focused on healing wounds of a 20-year war<\/p>\n<p>Jason Kander is tired. For weeks the former Missouri secretary of state, an Afghanistan veteran as well as a rising star of Democratic politics, has been working to get Afghans out of the country after its fall to the Taliban. That means working on Afghan time, which means working at night.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/i-pray-they-are-alive-afghans-headed-to-us-think-of-families-left-behind\"> \u2018I pray they are alive\u2019: Afghans headed to US think of families left behind <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/05\/jason-kander-interview-afghanistan-airlift-veterans-ptsd-podcast-majority-54\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Democrat has been described as a possible president \u2013 but for now he\u2019s focused on healing wounds of a 20-year warJason Kander is tired. For weeks the former Missouri secretary of state, an Afghanistan veteran as well as a rising star of De&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2539,"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":[46,1007,494,61,45,473,758,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-democrats","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-national-security","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/36477","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\/2539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36478,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36477\/revisions\/36478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}