{"id":3315,"date":"2021-08-19T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2021-08-20T01:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T01:12:31","slug":"taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/19\/taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Pursuing the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan brings back a lot of memories. Nearly 20 years ago, I traveled to Afghanistan to cover the fighting after the Sept. 11 attacks. I had the good fortune to work with an amazing and courageous photojournalist named Cheryl Diaz-Meyer.<\/p>\n<p>I had volunteered to go to Afghanistan or wherever the U.S. was sending troops and I have no regrets, but I was glad to get out of there alive. Eight journalists were killed while Cheryl and I were there.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3259\" style=\"width: 1040px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tracey-Eaton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3259\" src=\"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tracey-Eaton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tracey-Eaton.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tracey-Eaton-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tracey-Eaton-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tracey-Eaton-768x1170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tracey-Eaton-1008x1536.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporting from refugee camp near Khoja Bahauddin, Afghanistan, Oct. 26, 2001.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I made a video about our trip about 10 years ago. I never posted it anywhere, but figure I may as well share it. Please be aware that some images are graphic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3u7Ctv1Gqlk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/afghanistan\/\">photo gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan brings back a lot of memories. Nearly 20 years ago, I traveled to Afghanistan to cover the fighting after the Sept. 11 attacks. I had the good fortune to work with an amazing and courageous photojournalist named Cheryl Diaz-Meyer. I had volunteered to go to Afghanistan or wherever &#8230; <a title=\"Pursuing the Taliban\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/19\/taliban\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pursuing the Taliban\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[28,201,30,23],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-cheryl-diaz-meyer","tag-taliban","tag-tracey-eaton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyeaton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}