{"id":17781,"date":"2019-10-07T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T01:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17781"},"modified":"2019-10-17T21:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T01:51:52","slug":"10000-afghani-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17781","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Afghani Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17783\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191007_170310.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17783\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191007_170310-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"10,000 Afghani Note\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17783\" data-wp-pid=\"17783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191007_170310-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191007_170310-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191007_170310-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191007_170310-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191007_170310-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191007_170310.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">10,000 Afghani Note<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently been going through some scanned photographs and putting labels on them. These were taken by my father-in-law in the 1950s and early 1960s in Afghanistan, a place many people could not have found on a map until the last 20 years or so. I&#8217;ve gotten so I have a pretty good idea where the different photographs were taken and I recognize some of the important personages, such as King Mohammed Zahir Shah, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin of the USSR, and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. I also have gotten familiar with many of the landmarks. On this 10,000 Afghani note (sadly not worth much) is a detail of the Great Mosque of Herat. On the reverse is the Arch of Qala-e-Bost, outside Lashkar Gah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been going through some scanned photographs and putting labels on them. These were taken by my father-in-law in the 1950s and early 1960s in Afghanistan, a place many people could not have found on a map until the last 20 years or so. I&#8217;ve gotten so I have a pretty good idea where &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[2043,2042,70,374,2041,2044,409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17785,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17781\/revisions\/17785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}