{"id":6476,"date":"2016-02-13T11:52:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T11:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2016-02-14T19:56:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T19:56:20","slug":"crossing-the-friendship-bridge-on-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/crossing-the-friendship-bridge-on-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Friendship Bridge on foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article by traveller Jonny Blair describing <a href=\"http:\/\/dontstopliving.net\/world-borders-my-journey-from-uzbekistan-to-afghanistan-on-friendship-bridge-to-hayratan\/\">crossing the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan border<\/a>. It includes pictures of a <a href=\"http:\/\/8319-presscdn-0-95.pagely.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P1580454-1.jpg\">freight train crossing the Friendship Bridge<\/a> as he walks across.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><q>At this moment a freight train energises its way past me, just to remind me there are other people around. I briefly envisage Ringo Starr belting out a shit Thomas the Tank Engine line. This is truly off the rails though.<\/q>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two videos of walking over the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/hairatan-and-the-friendship-bridge\/\">Friendship Bridge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SACMOjdYzEY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e2Hv3tqm2bw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by traveller Jonny Blair describing crossing the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan border. It includes pictures of a freight train crossing the Friendship Bridge as he walks across. At this moment a freight train energises its way past me, just to remind me there are other people around. I briefly envisage Ringo Starr belting out a shit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66,79,200,204],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-friendship-bridge","tag-hayratan","tag-uzbekistan","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476","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=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6487,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}