{"id":3148,"date":"2010-10-08T17:47:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T17:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2010-10-08T17:47:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T17:47:48","slug":"revolution-on-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/revolution-on-the-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolution on the rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><q>Historically, Afghans have regarded railways with suspicion. But now the government is embracing a plan that could help the country tap into global markets, delivering prosperity and even peace<\/q>, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/news\/worldwide\/south-asia\/afghanistans-revolution-on-the-rails?pageCount=0\">Afghanistan&#8217;s revolution on the rails<\/a>, an article by Jonathan Gornall at UAE newspaper The National. <\/p>\n<p>It includes some interesting comments from railway consultant David Brice, who is working in Afghanistan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And, [Brice] believes, the Afghans may finally have lost their once well justified distrust of foreigners bearing blueprints for railways. &#8220;The local people we talk to are thoroughly behind it all. They want to be able to move around much more easily, and in safety. &#8220;Afghanistan never has been a self-sufficient country, and any move towards making that happen is clearly highly desirable. The whole population sees this; they are living in terrible poverty and they need access between labour and jobs and medical services. Everything hangs on a decent transport network, and this is the way to provide it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<cite>Source:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/news\/worldwide\/south-asia\/afghanistans-revolution-on-the-rails?pageCount=0\" title=\"Afghanistan's revolution on the rails\">The National<\/a>, 2010-10-09<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, Afghans have regarded railways with suspicion. But now the government is embracing a plan that could help the country tap into global markets, delivering prosperity and even peace, says Afghanistan&#8217;s revolution on the rails, an article by Jonathan Gornall at UAE newspaper The National. It includes some interesting comments from railway consultant David Brice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-projects","tag-the-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","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=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}