{"id":40755,"date":"2011-03-04T12:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T17:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=40755"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:22:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:22:05","slug":"40755","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/03\/04\/40755\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Press Herald reviews Rohde &#039;89 tale of Taliban captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/03\/portland-press-herald_3520673.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/03\/portland-press-herald_3520673-198x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"portland-press-herald_3520673\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Portland Press Herald <\/em>reviews <em>A Rope and a Prayer,<\/em> the book by <em><\/em>David Rohde &#8217;89 that tells of his capture by the Taliban in Afghanistan in November 2008. The harrowing story begins when a Taliban commander proffers an interview invitation to Rohde, a <em>New York Times<\/em> correspondent. &#8220;I knew meeting with the Taliban was perilous,&#8221; Rohde writes. But he told himself &#8220;not to be a coward, that the interview is a risk worth taking&#8230;. Many other journalists have done the same thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Rohde and his companions are captured, beginning seven months of captivity during which their captors demand a $5-million ransom and the release of Taliban prisoners. The book, co-written by Rohde&#8217;s wife,\u00a0Kristen Mulvihill, also illuminates U.S. efforts to free the captives, with a domestic cast of characters including <em>The New York Times<\/em> legal counsel, the FBI, an Irish national with Taliban contacts, Hillary Clinton, Gen. David Petraeus and the late diplomat Richard Holbrooke.<\/p>\n<p>Rohde eventually escaped on foot. A member of the Bates Class of 1989, Rohde completed his studies at Brown University. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/life\/audience\/writers-research-turned-into-a-tale-of-terror_2011-02-27.html\"> View story from <em>The Portland Press Herald<\/em>, Feb. 27, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Press Herald reviews A Rope and a Prayer, the book&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11009],"tags":[624,11051,9140],"class_list":["post-40755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-the-college","tag-afghanistan","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86928,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40755\/revisions\/86928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}