{"id":74332,"date":"2025-09-19T22:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/19\/british-couple-peter-and-barbie-reynolds-freed-after-six-months-in-captivity-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:29:58","slug":"family-tell-of-immense-joy-at-release-of-british-couple-detained-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74332","title":{"rendered":"Family tell of \u2018immense joy\u2019 at release of British couple detained in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter and Barbie Reynolds were arrested and held without charge for eight months, raising fears for their health<\/p>\n<p>A British couple have been freed from months of detention in Afghanistan to the \u201cimmense joy\u201d of their family.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Taliban released Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband, Peter, 80, after being held for eight months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/19\/british-couple-peter-and-barbie-reynolds-freed-after-six-months-in-captivity-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter and Barbie Reynolds were arrested and held without charge for eight months, raising fears for their healthA British couple have been freed from months of detention in Afghanistan to the \u201cimmense joy\u201d of their family. The Taliban released Barbie R&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4986,"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":[46,524,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-qatar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-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\/74332","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\/4986"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74340,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74332\/revisions\/74340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}