{"id":159,"date":"2026-01-14T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/?p=159"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:30:33","slug":"afghanistan-double-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/afghanistan-double-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Double Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@mikeokay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mike Okey<\/a>. One of my favorite YouTube channels. I feel like I am traveling with him. I always had the dream of going to Vietnam, China and Cambodia. That is why I was drawn to his content at first. But once you get to watch his travel journals, you realize that he is a genuine human being, empathic and curios. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another favorite channel of mine is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@fern-tv\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@fern-tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fern<\/a>.  I love their storytelling techniques and narration. Plus, I have always been attracted to investigative journalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, both of them released, some weeks ago, content on Afghanistan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I felt that watching these videos gave me a new perspective of that country, its culture and its place in geopolitics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start with fern:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"We Investigated China&#039;s Secret Highway\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LAPcW7OAv98?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And then go watch the series Mike Okey create during his travels there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Entering Taliban Controlled Afghanistan in 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qsNwYzAylcU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Okey. One of my favorite YouTube channels. I feel like I am traveling with him. I always had the dream of going to Vietnam, China and Cambodia. That is why I was drawn to his content at first. But once you get to watch his travel journals, you realize that he is a genuine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[12,11],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-afghanistan","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/create-a-highly-detailed-high-resolution-image-that-captures-the-essence-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/256colores.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}