{"id":8655,"date":"2022-02-26T07:13:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T07:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=8655"},"modified":"2022-02-26T07:13:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T07:13:34","slug":"legendary-singer-gul-zaman-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/02\/legendary-singer-gul-zaman-is-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary singer Gul Zaman is no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Legendary Afghan singer Master Gul Zaman has passed away at the age of 82.<\/p>\n<p>The famous singer and composer breathed his last after prolonged illness, confirmed his friends and relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Ustad Gul Zaman was one of Afghanistan&#8217;s most famous musicians, with hundreds of songs and poems to his credit in Pashto language.<\/p>\n<p>He began his career in the 1960s by performing at the state-run Radio Television Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982, he was awarded the award of the best composer in Afghanistan. He was also named as &#8216;Baba&#8217; (Father) of Music by the Ministry of Information and Culture.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Ustad Gul Zaman has more than 500 audio and video songs to his credit in the archives of the Radio Television Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Legendary Afghan singer Master Gul Zaman has passed away at the age of 82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,229,4],"tags":[12,370,784,785,786],"class_list":["post-8655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy-human-rights","category-arts-culture","category-news_","tag-afghanistan","tag-culture","tag-pashto","tag-music","tag-gul-zaman"],"views":731,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}