{"id":36396,"date":"2021-09-04T00:10:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/03\/my-homeland-song-poignant-anthem-fleeing-afghans"},"modified":"2021-09-04T00:10:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:10:40","slug":"my-homeland-my-only-love-fleeing-afghans-embrace-1998-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36396","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My homeland, my only love\u2019: fleeing Afghans embrace 1998 song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrics to My Homeland strike powerful chord with new generation of refugees from war-torn country<\/p>\n<p>As yet another generation of Afghans fled their homeland over the past fortnight, one song has resonated as a poignant anthem for the exodus.<\/p>\n<p>My Homeland<em> \u2013 Sarzamin i Man <\/em>in Farsi \u2013 was written in 1998 by the singer Dawood Sarkhosh, who himself had to leave Afghanistan in the civil war that erupted following the Soviet withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/03\/my-homeland-song-poignant-anthem-fleeing-afghans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrics to My Homeland strike powerful chord with new generation of refugees from war-torn countryAs yet another generation of Afghans fled their homeland over the past fortnight, one song has resonated as a poignant anthem for the exodus.My Homeland \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1725,"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":[46,71,59,425,494,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-culture","category-global-development","category-music","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36396","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\/1725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36397,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36396\/revisions\/36397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}