{"id":113734,"date":"2011-07-15T14:28:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T09:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=113734"},"modified":"2011-07-15T14:28:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T09:28:58","slug":"pilgrims-to-holy-sites-in-khosrov-national-park-continue-to-be-charged-civic-initiative-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/15\/pilgrims-to-holy-sites-in-khosrov-national-park-continue-to-be-charged-civic-initiative-responds.html","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrims to Holy Sites in Khosrov National Park Continue to be Charged: Civic Initiative Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian government approved a project to restore and preserve more than 300 historic, architectural monuments in Khosrov National Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Praising the move, a youth civic initiative called &#8220;Know Your Country&#8221; says the issue the group raised 2 months ago \u2014 charging each pilgrim visiting holy sites in the reserve 3,000 drams \u2014 has not dissipated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Khosrov forest director in early June tried to justify charging pilgrims by &#8216;the need to develop ecotourism in Armenia.&#8217; Taking this into consideration, the Know Your Country youth initiative proposes to organize at least once a month in the summer a &#8216;Doors Open&#8217; event for pilgrims visiting holy sites,&#8221; according to a statement issued by the youth initiative group, who say they are counting on Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan&#8217;s support in settling this issue.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian government approved a project to restore and preserve more than 300 historic, architectural monuments in&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,29786,29788,29787,29789,29790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}