{"id":74338,"date":"2025-09-20T00:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/sep\/19\/immense-joy-elderly-british-couple-hug-relatives-after-afghanistan-release-video"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:41:13","slug":"immense-joy-elderly-british-couple-hug-relatives-after-afghanistan-release-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74338","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Immense joy:\u2019 elderly British couple hug relatives after Afghanistan release \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbie and Peter Reynolds have been freed after being detained without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since February, where for a long period they were separated and held in a maximum-security prison. The couple had lived in Afghanistan for nearly two decades, and ran a training and education organisation<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\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\">British couple Peter and Barbie Reynolds freed after six months in captivity in Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/sep\/19\/immense-joy-elderly-british-couple-hug-relatives-after-afghanistan-release-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbie and Peter Reynolds have been freed after being detained without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since February, where for a long period they were separated and held in a maximum-security prison. The couple had lived in Afghanistan for nearl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[46,212,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","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\/74338","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74339,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74338\/revisions\/74339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}