{"id":40640,"date":"2021-08-20T23:57:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T23:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40640"},"modified":"2021-08-20T23:57:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T23:57:39","slug":"turmoil-in-afghanistan-hits-close-to-home-in-america-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40640","title":{"rendered":"Turmoil in Afghanistan hits close to home in America too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">US President Joe Biden said the Taliban&#8217;s return to power would be &#8220;gut-wrenching&#8221; to the Americans with a profound connection to Afghanistan after two decades of conflict. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">We spoke to Afghan immigrants in the US, military veterans and the widow of an American who lost his life serving in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Xinyan Yu, Chelsea Bailey, Ian Druce and Alison Hunter<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-58288575\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden said the Taliban&#8217;s return to power would be &#8220;gut-wrenching&#8221; to the Americans with a profound connection to Afghanistan after two decades of conflict. We spoke to Afghan immigrants in the US, military veterans and the widow of an American who lost his life serving in Afghanistan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/120194516_p09stlqd.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}