{"id":8937,"date":"2017-03-19T07:39:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T07:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=8937"},"modified":"2017-04-30T06:17:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T06:17:59","slug":"2017-04-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2017-04-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward To The Past: Life In A Second-World Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Jason Kazarian<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>April 16, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s it like to live in Armenia, a former Soviet republic and a member of today&#8217;s Commonwealth of Independent States?  Pretty much like living in America before the Great Depression. People have cars, electricity, factory jobs, and homes, but still make their own bread and cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Paul Kazarian worked in Armenia from 2008-2009 as a director of an IT training academy. Join him for an &#8220;agri-tour&#8221; of this tiny nation in the Caucus Mountains where the 21st century has, in some respects, yet to arrive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/215354343\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/215354343\">Humanist Community Forum (2017-04-16): Forward To The Past: Life In A Second-World Country (Jason Kazarian)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RSVP on Meetup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/238530203\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/238530203\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like us on Facebook: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us on Twitter: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See videos of our past Forums:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kazarian April 16, 2017 What\u2019s it like to live in Armenia, a former Soviet republic and a member of today&#8217;s Commonwealth of Independent States? Pretty much like living in America before the Great Depression. People have cars, electricity, factory jobs, and homes, but still make their own bread and cheese. Jason Paul Kazarian worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2017-04-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forward To The Past: Life In A Second-World Country&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9270,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}