{"id":174721,"date":"2021-08-29T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T11:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ex-uk-marine-leaves-kabul-with-dogs-cats-but-no-local-staff"},"modified":"2021-08-29T11:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T11:19:40","slug":"ex-uk-marine-leaves-kabul-with-dogs-cats-but-no-local-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ex-uk-marine-leaves-kabul-with-dogs-cats-but-no-local-staff","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UK Marine leaves Kabul with dogs, cats but no local staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this satellite photo taken by Planet Labs Inc., a Taliban checkpoint is seen blocking access just south of Kabul&#8217;s international airport Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. Taliban forces sealed off Kabul&#8217;s airport Saturday to most Afghans hoping for evacuation, as the U.S. and its allies were ending a chaotic airlift that will end their troops&#8217; two decades in Afghanistan. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)LONDON (AP) &#8212; A former U.K. Royal Marine who waged a high-profile campaign to leave Afghanistan with almost 200 rescued dogs and cats has flown to safety &#8212; with the animals, but without his charity&#8217;s Afghan staff, who were left behind in Kabul.A privately funded chartered plane carrying Paul &#8220;Pen&#8221; Farthing and his animals landed at London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport on Sunday after a saga that gripped and divided Britain, raising difficult questions about the relative value placed on human and animal lives.Iain McGill, a veterinarian involved in the effort, said the animals appeared healthy and had been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) &#8212; A former U.K. Royal Marine who waged a high-profile campaign to leave Afghanistan with almost 200 rescued dogs and cats has flown to safety &#8212; with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[248,6,249],"class_list":["post-174721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-animals","tag-lifestyle","tag-pets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}