{"id":36762,"date":"2021-09-12T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/12\/they-will-kill-you-a-future-leader-of-afghanistan-on-the-price-he-paid-for-freedom"},"modified":"2021-09-12T05:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T20:00:33","slug":"they-will-kill-you-a-future-leader-of-afghanistan-on-the-price-he-paid-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36762","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They will kill you\u2019: a future leader of Afghanistan on the price he paid for freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Zaman Khadimi was forced to make an impossible choice as he fled the Taliban for sanctuary in Australia<\/p>\n<p>On an August morning, Mohammad Zaman Khadimi walked out of class and into a world entirely changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard the news that the Taliban were coming,\u201d he says. \u201cThey had captured Herat and Lashkar Gah and they would come to Kabul. Nothing would stop them. Everything changed. I knew I would be vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/12\/they-will-kill-you-a-future-leader-of-afghanistan-on-the-price-he-paid-for-freedom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Zaman Khadimi was forced to make an impossible choice as he fled the Taliban for sanctuary in AustraliaOn an August morning, Mohammad Zaman Khadimi walked out of class and into a world entirely changed.\u201cI heard the news that the Taliban were c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[46,43,645,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-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\/36762","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36763,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36762\/revisions\/36763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}