{"id":6092,"date":"2016-06-26T20:01:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2016-06-26T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T19:01:19","slug":"railway-to-a-place-of-evil-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/railway-to-a-place-of-evil-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway to a place of evil memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>KHYBER PASS RAILWAY.<br \/>\nA railway has been opened through the Khyber Pass\u2014a place of evil memory to British troops and a nightmare to India. The railway is 27 miles long from the entrance to the Pass to a valley near Londi Khotal. There are 32 tunnels, and the steepest gradient is one over 25. The old military problems of India and Afghanistan are now altered. <\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: Gloucester Journal, Saturday 7 November 1925<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHYBER PASS RAILWAY. A railway has been opened through the Khyber Pass\u2014a place of evil memory to British troops and a nightmare to India. The railway is 27 miles long from the entrance to the Pass to a valley near Londi Khotal. There are 32 tunnels, and the steepest gradient is one over 25. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-6092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-khyber-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092","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=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6277,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions\/6277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}