{"id":52,"date":"2012-03-24T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T06:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=52"},"modified":"2013-01-23T10:47:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T06:17:34","slug":"associated-press-captures-kabul-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press Captures Kabul Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Associated Press photo gets high marks from me. This is a look down Darul Aman Road about the time of the opening of this session of National Assembly, 23 January. None of the hallmarks of a country recovering from war, the barricades and high concrete walls, show up in this winter land scene. The photo is ready for use by the Kabul Tourism office.<\/p>\n<p>The image also reminds me how nice it is to have put away my winter jacket now that all the snow has left. I am told that this winter was unusually cold. I had not seen snow in Afghanistan before. My earlier trips happened in the middle of the summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AP-Photo-Kabul-Near-Parliament-Monday-23-Jan-12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-54\" title=\"AP Photo-Kabul Near Parliament Monday 23-Jan-12\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AP-Photo-Kabul-Near-Parliament-Monday-23-Jan-12.jpg\" width=\"786\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AP-Photo-Kabul-Near-Parliament-Monday-23-Jan-12.jpg 982w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AP-Photo-Kabul-Near-Parliament-Monday-23-Jan-12-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AP-Photo-Kabul-Near-Parliament-Monday-23-Jan-12-418x300.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Associated Press photo gets high marks from me. This is a look down Darul Aman Road about the time of the opening of this session of National Assembly, 23 January. None of the hallmarks of a country recovering from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=52\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iqtu-Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}