{"id":23414,"date":"2020-10-03T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/03\/armenian-diaspora-feels-pull-of-another-war-kardashian-azerbaijan"},"modified":"2020-10-03T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T07:00:17","slug":"defend-our-nation-armenian-diaspora-feels-pull-of-another-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23414","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Defend our nation&#8217;: Armenian diaspora feels pull of another war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Kardashians and others raise awareness, some consider returning to fight against Azerbaijan<\/p>\n<p>When Azerbaijan went to war this week with Armenia over the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, it might have appeared as an obscure conflict with little resonance outside the south Caucasus.<\/p>\n<p>Until you turned to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimKardashian\/status\/1310278055768846338\">the Twitter account<\/a> of one of the most famous people in the world, Kim Kardashian. Or that of her husband, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyewest\/status\/1310804374143131648\">Kanye West<\/a>. Metal fans might have seen tweets about the war <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/serjtankian\/status\/1310098972434821127\">from <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/serjtankian\/status\/1310098972434821127\">Serj Tankian<\/a>, the lead singer of System of a Down. If you missed those, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexisohanian\/status\/1310306821928898560\">also posts by<\/a> Alexis Ohanian Sr, the founder of Reddit and husband of Serena Williams, and former Arsenal footballer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HenrikhMkh\/status\/1310871817431781376\">Henrikh Mkhitaryan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/03\/armenian-diaspora-feels-pull-of-another-war-kardashian-azerbaijan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Kardashians and others raise awareness, some consider returning to fight against AzerbaijanWhen Azerbaijan went to war this week with Armenia over the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, it might have appeared as an obscure conflict with lit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,1551,221,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23415,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23414\/revisions\/23415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}