{"id":2750,"date":"2010-10-17T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2010-10-17T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T19:00:36","slug":"construction-of-friendship-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/construction-of-friendship-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of the Friendship Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><q>Just south of Termez, at Heratan, on the Amu Darya river, diplomats understand that a reinforced steel bridge is being constructed. The aim, it would seem, is to improve the roads and garrison facilities right from the Soviet border to Kabul<\/q><\/p>\n<p><cite>Russians switch to commando-type raids in Afghanistan, Karan Thapar, The Times, 19 September 1980, p1 and p6 (Issue 60728; col C)<\/cite>\n     <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just south of Termez, at Heratan, on the Amu Darya river, diplomats understand that a reinforced steel bridge is being constructed. The aim, it would seem, is to improve the roads and garrison facilities right from the Soviet border to Kabul Russians switch to commando-type raids in Afghanistan, Karan Thapar, The Times, 19 September 1980, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[66,79,175,198],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-history","tag-friendship-bridge","tag-hayratan","tag-the-times","tag-ussr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","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=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}