{"id":381,"date":"2005-03-07T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=381"},"modified":"2005-03-07T10:28:06","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T17:28:06","slug":"swords-into-utility-poles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Swords Into . . . Utility Poles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Monday morning comes <a href=\"http:\/\/chrenkoff.blogspot.com\">Chrenkoff<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chrenkoff.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/good-news-from-afghanistan-part-10.html\">Good News from Afghanistan<\/a>.  Today&#8217;s highlight:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ismail Khan set himself a daunting task when he took office as Afghanistan&#8217;s minister of water and energy in December. The former mujahedin commander who long held sway over the western city of Herat promised the hard-pressed residents of Kabul that he would fix their energy shortage within two months.<\/p>\n<p>Now, through a combination of hard work and good luck, it appears that the strongman from Herat has been able to fulfil his pledge. Instead of having power for only a few short hours, three nights out of seven, residents of much of the city now have electricity on a nightly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, 70 per cent of Kabul&#8217;s homes have electricity every night,&#8217; Ismail Khan [said].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes me cry.  I don&#8217;t know what kind of man Ismail Khan (sounds like something out of Kipling) is, but from a previous GNfA that says he&#8217;s turned Herat into a veritable paradise, and now this, I suspect he&#8217;s the kind of man his country needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Monday morning comes Chrenkoff&#8216;s Good News from Afghanistan. Today&#8217;s highlight: Ismail Khan set himself a daunting task when he took office as Afghanistan&#8217;s minister of water and energy in December. The former mujahedin commander who long held sway over the western city of Herat promised the hard-pressed residents of Kabul that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swords Into . . . Utility Poles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}