{"id":59414,"date":"2023-10-25T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T08:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/oct\/25\/for-afghans-around-the-world-this-cricket-world-cup-is-providing-a-rare-moment-of-joy"},"modified":"2023-10-25T17:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T08:25:07","slug":"for-afghans-around-the-world-this-cricket-world-cup-is-providing-a-rare-moment-of-joy-shadi-khan-saif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59414","title":{"rendered":"For Afghans around the world this Cricket World Cup is providing a rare moment of joy | Shadi Khan Saif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Kabul to Melbourne, millions are celebrating Afghanistan\u2019s stunning performance. It\u2019s about more than just cricket<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMubarak, Mubarak, Congratulations!\u201d A mate of mine in London, who hadn\u2019t contacted me for ages, texted me in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. What personal or professional achievement could this celebration be for?<\/p>\n<p>Still in bed, half asleep, I heard one of my housemates\u2019 elated laughter and chatter on the phone. What is going on? I thought.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/oct\/25\/for-afghans-around-the-world-this-cricket-world-cup-is-providing-a-rare-moment-of-joy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Kabul to Melbourne, millions are celebrating Afghanistan\u2019s stunning performance. It\u2019s about more than just cricket\u201cMubarak, Mubarak, Congratulations!\u201d A mate of mine in London, who hadn\u2019t contacted me for ages, texted me in the wee hours of Tuesda&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3191,"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":[46,499,3008,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-cricket","category-cricket-world-cup-2023","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59414","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\/3191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59415,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59414\/revisions\/59415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}