{"id":46962,"date":"2022-08-02T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/afghanistan-american-friendship"},"modified":"2022-08-02T14:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T05:00:44","slug":"hes-the-only-american-i-have-a-relationship-with-the-friendship-that-survived-40-years-of-afghan-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46962","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s the only American I have a relationship with\u2019: the friendship that survived 40 years of Afghan conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jabar, from Kandahar, met David, from Nebraska, in the late 1970s. Political upheaval threatened \u2013 but never severed \u2013 their ties<\/p>\n<p><em>In the final days of August 2021, the US completed<\/em><em> its withdrawal from Afghanistan after <\/em><em> 20 years. As the Taliban retook control of the country, one Afghan family was forced to make a decision <\/em><em>about their future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Four decades before, they had welcomed an American into their family. Now, it was his chance to return the favor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/afghanistan-american-friendship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jabar, from Kandahar, met David, from Nebraska, in the late 1970s. Political upheaval threatened \u2013 but never severed \u2013 their tiesIn the final days of August 2021, the US completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan after  20 years. As the Taliban retook c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3215,"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":[46,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","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\/46962","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\/3215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46963,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46962\/revisions\/46963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}