{"id":7177,"date":"2018-08-01T23:59:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T22:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2018-07-24T22:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T21:00:57","slug":"king-amanullah-at-croydon-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/king-amanullah-at-croydon-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"King Amanullah at Croydon airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/player.bfi.org.uk\/free\/film\/watch-king-amanullah-at-croydon-1928-online\">Film of King Amanullah of Afghanistan&#8217;s 1928 visit<\/a> to <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/king-amanullah-at-croydon-airport\/\">Croydon airport<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>King Amanullah, Afghanistan\u2019s reforming pro-Western ruler, gets a good look around Croydon Airport in this film, which shows the monarch inspecting buildings and airplanes, including one with folding wings that\u2019s stored in a portable hanger. He also received some mail, written in Persian, dropped by parachute, and noses around a control tower. The king looks interested throughout, and is accompanied by a number of local dignitaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film of King Amanullah of Afghanistan&#8217;s 1928 visit to Croydon airport. King Amanullah, Afghanistan\u2019s reforming pro-Western ruler, gets a good look around Croydon Airport in this film, which shows the monarch inspecting buildings and airplanes, including one with folding wings that\u2019s stored in a portable hanger. He also received some mail, written in Persian, dropped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,47,204],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-stuff","tag-amanullah","tag-croydon","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","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=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7179,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}