{"id":41219,"date":"2022-01-31T06:56:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T21:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/30\/joe-biden-demands-release-mark-frerichs-taliban-hostage"},"modified":"2022-01-31T06:56:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T21:56:37","slug":"joe-biden-demands-release-of-mark-frerichs-us-afghanistan-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41219","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden demands release of Mark Frerichs, US Afghanistan hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>President marks second anniversary of engineer\u2019s capture<\/li>\n<li>Family says safe return should be Biden priority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Biden on Sunday called for the release of Mark Frerichs, a US Navy veteran taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two years ago. <\/p>\n<p>Frerichs, a civil engineer and contractor from Lombard, Illinois, was kidnapped in January 2020 in the Afghan capital, Kabul. He is believed to be held by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/30\/joe-biden-demands-release-mark-frerichs-taliban-hostage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President marks second anniversary of engineer\u2019s captureFamily says safe return should be Biden priorityJoe Biden on Sunday called for the release of Mark Frerichs, a US Navy veteran taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two years ago. Frerichs, a civil &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"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":[46,1854,939,61,44,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/41219","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\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41220,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41219\/revisions\/41220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}