{"id":84448,"date":"2019-08-01T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=84448"},"modified":"2019-08-01T06:12:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T10:12:38","slug":"nbc-how-u-s-troops-helped-this-young-afghani-pianist-pursue-his-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=84448","title":{"rendered":"(NBC) How U.S. troops helped this young Afghani pianist pursue his dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the NBC blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Elham Fanous grew up in Afghanistan. At the time, the Taliban had made playing or listening to music a crime, but American forces put an end to that in 2001, when Elham was four. He is now headed to grad school at the Manhattan School of Music, and says none of it would have happened without the U.S. troops who gave music back to the Afghan people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yc7eKF_rYl8\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWatch it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the NBC blurb: Elham Fanous grew up in Afghanistan. At the time, the Taliban had made playing or listening to music a crime, but American forces put an end to that in 2001, when Elham was four. He<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=84448\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[503,209,143,147,132,150,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-immigration","category-music","category-war-in-afghanistan","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84451,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84448\/revisions\/84451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}