{"id":87430,"date":"2019-05-26T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87430"},"modified":"2019-05-26T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T16:59:49","slug":"his-way-of-saying-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87430","title":{"rendered":"His Way of Saying &#8220;Thank you&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Almond-Marsh-sunset-incoming-flight-10-2014-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Almond-Marsh-sunset-incoming-flight-10-2014-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Almond-Marsh-sunset-incoming-flight-10-2014-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Almond-Marsh-sunset-incoming-flight-10-2014-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A young man from Afghanistan, now in New York City, wants to thank US troops for helping him survive the Taliban and become a classical musician.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/video\/2019\/05\/25\/a-young-afghan-concert-pianist-has-a-message-for-us-troops\/\">https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/video\/2019\/05\/25\/a-young-afghan-concert-pianist-has-a-message-for-us-troops\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born in a country where music was illegal and the Taliban could arrest you for having an instrument, a young Afghan boy dreamed of becoming a concert pianist. He owes the fulfillment of that dream, he says, to American troops. (Ben Murray \/ Military Times)\u00a0\u00a0He survived depredations of the Taliban and ends up in NYC with a degree in music from Hunter College, and is now a concert pianist.<\/p>\n<p>He does play a piece that he composed at the end of the interview video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young man from Afghanistan, now in New York City, wants to thank US troops for &hellip; <a title=\"His Way of Saying &#8220;Thank you&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87430\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">His Way of Saying &#8220;Thank you&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87431,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87430\/revisions\/87431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}