{"id":28,"date":"2013-04-19T13:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?p=28"},"modified":"2014-02-28T23:47:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T23:47:47","slug":"la-city-council-commemorates-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/la-city-council-commemorates-armenian-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"LA City Council Commemorates Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content-area\">\n<p>\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/massispost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LACity_April19_2013-610x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"LACity_April19_2013\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 To mark the 98th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian Council of America (ACA) participated in the City of Los Angeles\u2019 annual Armenian Genocide Commemoration ceremony held at the Los Angeles City Council Chamber on April 19.  <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The commemoration was led by Councilmember Paul Krekorian and former City Council President Eric Garcetti, recognizing Rose Garjian, a 104 year old Genocide survivor, honoring Ararat Home for its immeasurable contributions to the Armenian-American elderly community, as well as honoring the AGBU Generation Next program for transforming the lives of  Armenian-American youth.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Councilmember Krekorian expressed the difficulty in grasping the magnitude of Genocide &#8211; a Genocide in a tiny nation to have lost one and a half million Armenian men, women and children. To put it into perspective, he asked everyone to remember what they felt on September 11th when thousands of victims were lost to a horrible act of terror, and to imagine if that terror was experienced every day for an entire year. \u201cIt is very important for all of us to recognize and condemn man\u2019s inhumanity towards man,\u201d Krekorian said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201cAs the Councilmember representing Little Armenia, who has traveled to Yerevan to make us sister cities, I&#8217;m deeply aware of the lasting impact of the Genocide,\u201d Councilmember Eric Garcetti said. \u201cIt&#8217;s important that the Genocide is never forgotten&#8211;that is the best way to ensure that tragic chapter in history is never repeated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In previous years the City Council has honored Emmy nominated filmmaker Dr. J. Michael Hagopian, and world-renowned scholar, Professor Richard G. Hovannisian. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 To mark the 98th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-slider-full":"","covernews-slider-center":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","covernews-medium-square":"","rpwe-thumbnail":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"ArmenianCouncil","author_link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/author\/armeniancouncil\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/category\/press-releases\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Press Releases<\/a>","tag_info":"Press Releases","comment_count":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}