{"id":73471,"date":"2025-08-16T02:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/15\/celebrations-anniversary-taliban-afghanistan-kabul-flower-shower"},"modified":"2025-08-16T02:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:16:23","slug":"men-celebrate-fourth-anniversary-of-talibans-return-to-power-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73471","title":{"rendered":"Men celebrate fourth anniversary of Taliban\u2019s return to power in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands gathered for Kabul \u2018flower showers\u2019 while women, banned from the events, staged protests<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of men gathered across Kabul on Friday to watch flowers being scattered from helicopters to mark the fourth anniversary of the Taliban\u2019s return to power \u2013 a celebration that women were barred from attending.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the six \u201cflower shower\u201d locations were already off-limits to women, who have been prohibited from entering parks and recreational areas since November 2022.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/15\/celebrations-anniversary-taliban-afghanistan-kabul-flower-shower\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands gathered for Kabul \u2018flower showers\u2019 while women, banned from the events, staged protestsThousands of men gathered across Kabul on Friday to watch flowers being scattered from helicopters to mark the fourth anniversary of the Taliban\u2019s return &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[46,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","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\/73471","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73475,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73471\/revisions\/73475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}