{"id":5617,"date":"2026-10-20T22:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/stars-and-stripes-from-the-archives-a-us-marine-buys-watermelon-at-a-market-in-a-113874\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:17:30","slug":"stars-and-stripes-from-the-archives-a-us-marine-buys-watermelon-at-a-market-in-a-113874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/stars-and-stripes-from-the-archives-a-us-marine-buys-watermelon-at-a-market-in-a-113874\/","title":{"rendered":"&#127482;&#127480; Stars and Stripes: From the archives: A US Marine buys watermelon at a market in Afghanistan, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/history\/archive_photo_of_the_day\/2026-10-22\/marine-shops-nawa-main-bazaar-23212069.html\">From the archives: A US Marine buys watermelon at a market in Afghanistan, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Stars and Stripes<\/p>\n<p>Published: 2026-10-20 22:17 (UTC)<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/history\/archive_photo_of_the_day\/2026-10-22\/marine-shops-nawa-main-bazaar-23212069.html\">https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/history\/archive_photo_of_the_day\/2026-10-22\/marine-shops-nawa-main-bazaar-23212069.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the archives: A US Marine buys watermelon at a market in Afghanistan, 2011 Source: Stars and Stripes Published: 2026-10-20 22:17 (UTC) Link: https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/history\/archive_photo_of_the_day\/2026-10-22\/marine-shops-nawa-main-bazaar-23212069.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}