{"id":2239,"date":"2010-02-28T19:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2010-02-28T19:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T19:00:48","slug":"the-tribes-were-very-restive-and-hostile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/the-tribes-were-very-restive-and-hostile\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The tribes were very restive and hostile&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><q>I&#8217;ve just been re-reading a fascinating book I found whilst browsing dusty shelves in a bookshop in Rawalpindi when I was last in Pakistan (1997). It is called &#8220;Adventure Through Khyber&#8221; by Victor Bayley &#8230; His task: to design and supervise the construction of a railway through the Khyber Pass, a railway which would eventually link far off Bombay to the Afghanistan Border at Landi Khana. <\/q><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tonycunnane.me.uk\/?p=2525\">More&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been re-reading a fascinating book I found whilst browsing dusty shelves in a bookshop in Rawalpindi when I was last in Pakistan (1997). It is called &#8220;Adventure Through Khyber&#8221; by Victor Bayley &#8230; His task: to design and supervise the construction of a railway through the Khyber Pass, a railway which would eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[97,134],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","tag-khyber-pass","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}