{"id":27221,"date":"2021-08-16T01:46:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27221"},"modified":"2021-08-16T01:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:46:36","slug":"how-can-one-possibly-understand-the-complex-and-tragic-history-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27221","title":{"rendered":"How can one possibly understand the complex and tragic history of Afghanistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One way is to read these three magnificent novels by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Kite Runner&#8221; &#8211; my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#TKR\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A Thousand Splendid Suns&#8221; &#8211;  my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#TSS\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;And The Mountains Echoed&#8221; &#8211;  my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#ATME\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way is to read these three magnificent novels by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini: &#8220;The Kite Runner&#8221; &#8211; my review here &#8220;A Thousand Splendid Suns&#8221; &#8211; my review here &#8220;And The Mountains Echoed&#8221; &#8211; my review here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27221","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=27221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27227,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27221\/revisions\/27227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}