{"id":63854,"date":"2024-08-15T10:32:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T10:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=63854"},"modified":"2024-08-15T10:32:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T10:32:58","slug":"afghan-who-came-to-uk-on-small-boat-says-he-never-felt-more-welcome-despite-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/15\/afghan-who-came-to-uk-on-small-boat-says-he-never-felt-more-welcome-despite-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan who came to UK on small boat says he \u2018never felt more welcome\u2019 despite riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63855\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sam-Pordale-feels-welcomed-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sam-Pordale-feels-welcomed-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sam-Pordale-feels-welcomed-360x193.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sam-Pordale-feels-welcomed.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">A <\/span>young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/afghan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Afghan<\/a>\u00a0refugee who earned a university scholarship after fleeing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/taliban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Taliban<\/a> three years ago and arriving in the UK on a small boat has \u201cnever felt more welcome\u201d despite riots\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/afghan-who-came-to-uk-on-small-boat-says-he-never-felt-more-welcome-despite-riots\/ar-AA1oQ6Ua?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=cbb36c4c84784558bcb1bf53dbc4fb91&amp;ei=21\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A young Afghan\u00a0refugee who earned a university scholarship after fleeing the\u00a0Taliban three years ago and arriving in the UK on a small&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sam-Pordale-feels-welcomed.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63856,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63854\/revisions\/63856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}