{"id":566510,"date":"2026-04-05T19:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566510\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:13:15","slug":"system-of-a-downs-daron-malakian-blasts-politicians-for-starting-wars-not-sending-their-own-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566510\/","title":{"rendered":"System Of A Down\u2019s Daron Malakian blasts politicians for starting wars &#038; not sending their own kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>System Of A Down guitarist\/vocalist Daron Malakian has called out politicians for starting wars without sending their own children to fight. His comments also included a reference to the band&#8217;s classic track &#8220;B.Y.O.B.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Malakian said the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This one\ud83d\udd95goes out to presidents and politicians who start wars and don&#8217;t send their sons, daughters, and loved ones to the battlefield. Why do they always send the poor?!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"System Of A Down guitarist\/vocalist Daron Malakian has called out politicians for starting wars without sending their own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[32178,88,3608,3607,1739,216,3,32180],"class_list":["post-566510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-daron-malakian","tag-entertainment","tag-hardcore","tag-lambgoat","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-news","tag-system-of-a-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}