{"id":8769,"date":"2013-06-29T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T07:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uk-pm-visits-british-troops-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T07:30:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T07:30:27","slug":"uk-pm-visits-british-troops-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uk-pm-visits-british-troops-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UK PM visits British troops in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{UK Prime Minister David Cameron made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan Saturday, where he met with British troops in Helmand province, according to 10 Downing Street.}}<\/p>\n<p>His visit coincides with &#8220;Armed Forces Day,&#8221; a series of events held across Britain Saturday to recognize the contribution of the nation&#8217;s servicemen and women, military veterans and their families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve just arrived in Afghanistan &#8212; where on this Armed Forces Day I&#8217;ll be thanking our troops for all they do to keep us safe,&#8221; Cameron tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 8,000 British servicemen and women serving in Afghanistan, alongside 68,000 from the United States, the largest contributor of troops.<\/p>\n<p>{agencies}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{UK Prime Minister David Cameron made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan Saturday, where he met with British troops in Helmand province, according to 10 Downing Street.}} His visit coincides with &#8220;Armed Forces Day,&#8221; a series of events held across Britain Saturday to recognize the contribution of the nation&#8217;s servicemen and women, military veterans and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}