{"id":36751,"date":"2021-09-12T03:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/11\/the-afghan-view-of-911-this-is-the-day-the-bad-times-started"},"modified":"2021-09-12T03:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T18:30:30","slug":"the-afghan-view-of-9-11-this-is-the-day-the-bad-times-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36751","title":{"rendered":"The Afghan view of 9\/11: \u2018This is the day the bad times started\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Taliban\u2019s opponents go back into exile, its footsoldiers celebrate victory over US 20 years on<\/p>\n<p>In Afghanistan 9\/11 is remembered as a trigger for decades of war which this year have come full, grim circle. The Taliban who controlled the country and sheltered Osama bin Laden at the time of the attacks are once more in command of Kabul and most of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the day when the bad times started for Afghanistan and Afghans,\u201d said Haizbullah, a grocer in the southern city of Kandahar, the Taliban\u2019s heartland and original capital.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/11\/the-afghan-view-of-911-this-is-the-day-the-bad-times-started\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Taliban\u2019s opponents go back into exile, its footsoldiers celebrate victory over US 20 years onIn Afghanistan 9\/11 is remembered as a trigger for decades of war which this year have come full, grim circle. The Taliban who controlled the countr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2562,"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":[46,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/36751","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\/2562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36752,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36751\/revisions\/36752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}