{"id":1393,"date":"2013-01-30T16:13:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T15:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2014-04-14T06:50:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T05:50:22","slug":"afghanistan-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan, Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Denver Post has just posted a wonderful collection of photos of Afghanistan from the 1960s<\/a> which paints a world that was remarkably different than it is today.<\/p>\n

Taken by William Podlich, a professor from Arizona State University who took a break to teach in Afghanistan, the photos serve as a reminder of an Afghanistan that looked like it was developing quickly into a prosperous and forward-thinking country.\u00a0 Nowadays, it is easy to forget that things were not always as they are now.<\/p>\n

I’ve posted a couple of his photos and encourage you to check them out.\u00a0 Below each, I posted a couple of photos I took in 2008 or so, near the same places he took his.<\/p>\n

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\nAbove: Children play in the Kabul river in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n

Below:\u00a0 The Kabul River in 2008.<\/p>\n

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\nAbove: The Masjid Shah-e-do Shamsheera in Kabul, late 1960s.
\nBelow: The same mosque today.<\/p>\n

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The Denver Post has just posted a wonderful collection of photos of Afghanistan from the 1960s which paints a world that was remarkably different than it is today. Taken by William Podlich, a professor from Arizona State University who took a break to teach in Afghanistan, the photos serve as a reminder of an Afghanistan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[136,70],"tags":[752,1790,754,755,756,753],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-random-musings","tag-1960s","tag-afghanistan","tag-comparison","tag-kabul-river","tag-masjid-shah-e-do-shamsheera","tag-old-photos"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2786,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/2786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}