{"id":17983,"date":"2020-12-14T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/12\/1080012"},"modified":"2020-12-14T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T19:08:00","slug":"being-born-a-refugees-no-joke-but-worse-things-can-happen-ak-dans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/14\/being-born-a-refugees-no-joke-but-worse-things-can-happen-ak-dans-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Being born a refugee\u2019s no joke, but\u00a0worse things can happen: AK Dans\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irrepressible comedian AK Dans was born in the world\u2019s largest refugee camp,\u202fKakuma, in Kenya, after his mother fled South Sudan in the 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s now a successful stand-up artist \u2013 or was - until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/coronavirus\" title=\"Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)\" class=\"word-link\" >COVID-19<\/a> crisis put a\u00a0temporary halt\u00a0to his live shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But you can\u2019t keep a good man down for long, and now AK\u2019s latest challenge is taking part in an online show with the support of UN refugee agency, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/\" title=\"UN High Commissioner for Refugees\" class=\"word-link\" >UNHCR<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/12\/1080012\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irrepressible comedian AK Dans was born in the world\u2019s largest refugee camp,\u202fKakuma, in Kenya, after his mother fled South Sudan in the 1990s.\u00a0<br \/>\nHe\u2019s now a successful stand-up artist \u2013 or was &#8211; until the COVID-19 crisis put a\u00a0temporary halt\u00a0to his live &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17984,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983\/revisions\/17984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}