{"id":17409,"date":"2015-05-26T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17409"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:12:11","slug":"a-moving-and-ultimately-uplifting-story-from-the-ravages-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17409","title":{"rendered":"A moving, and ultimately uplifting, story from the ravages of Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtually all the news we receive from Afghanistan is depressing. So it is heart-warming to hear of the magnificent efforts of\u00a0musicologist Ahmad Sarmast\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">to create an institute for classical music in Kabul, although tragic to find that the price has been serious damage to his hearing. \u00a0You can read this moving story <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/may\/25\/he-was-the-saviour-of-afghan-music-then-a-taliban-bomb-took-his-hearing\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtually all the news we receive from Afghanistan is depressing. So it is heart-warming to hear of the magnificent efforts of\u00a0musicologist Ahmad Sarmast\u00a0to create an institute for classical music in Kabul, although tragic to find that the price has been serious damage to his hearing. \u00a0You can read this moving story here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17411,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409\/revisions\/17411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}