{"id":5009,"date":"2012-08-19T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2012-08-19T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T19:00:16","slug":"soviet-era-photos-of-the-afghan-rail-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/soviet-era-photos-of-the-afghan-rail-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet-era photos of the Afghan rail links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some RIA Novosti photos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visualrian.ru\/en\/site\/gallery\/#630292\/\">Afghan fuel trucks at the Soviet-Afghan border<\/a>. Turkmenistan, 04\/18\/1978 [18 April 1978], author Fred Grinberg. A black and white photo of showing the railway on the left.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visualrian.ru\/en\/site\/gallery\/#464480\/\">Afghan gasoline tank trucks with the Soviet fuel en route to the city of Herat<\/a> is a colour picture of the same location. It is dated 06\/01\/1978 [but is that DD\/MM\/\/YYYY, or MM\/DD\/YYYY], however it looks to be taken at almost the same time as the picture above &#8211; compare the vehicles and the people.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visualrian.ru\/en\/site\/gallery\/#641548\/\">New bridge connecting the Soviet port of Termez and the Afghan port of Hairatan<\/a>, event date 07\/01\/1984.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some RIA Novosti photos: Afghan fuel trucks at the Soviet-Afghan border. Turkmenistan, 04\/18\/1978 [18 April 1978], author Fred Grinberg. A black and white photo of showing the railway on the left. Afghan gasoline tank trucks with the Soviet fuel en route to the city of Herat is a colour picture of the same location. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[66,184],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-photographs","tag-friendship-bridge","tag-towraghondi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","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=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}