{"id":72971,"date":"2025-03-05T20:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72971"},"modified":"2025-03-05T20:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:46:06","slug":"family-of-detained-british-couple-pleads-with-taliban-for-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/05\/family-of-detained-british-couple-pleads-with-taliban-for-phone-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of detained British couple pleads with Taliban for phone call"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1AkeKp.img?w=534&amp;h=333&amp;m=6&amp;x=334&amp;y=90&amp;s=408&amp;d=111\" alt=\"Peter Reynolds and his wife Barbie were detained by the Taliban\u2019s interior ministry on Feb 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The family of an elderly British couple being held captive\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/afghanistan\/\" 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}\">in Afghanistan<\/a> has pleaded with the Taliban to allow them a phone call so that they know they have not been abandoned.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/family-of-detained-british-couple-plead-with-taliban-for-phone-call\/ar-AA1AjFJz?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=0576b2ce03ba4ab8956299c1252f724a&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>The family of an elderly British couple being held captive\u00a0in Afghanistan has pleaded with the Taliban to allow them a phone call&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/elderly-couple-afghan.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72971","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=72971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72972,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72971\/revisions\/72972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}