{"id":143094,"date":"2011-11-21T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T10:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=143094"},"modified":"2011-11-21T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T10:11:55","slug":"monument-to-us-president-erected-in-tbilisi-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/21\/monument-to-us-president-erected-in-tbilisi-georgia.html","title":{"rendered":"Monument to US President Erected in Tbilisi, Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official unveiling of the monument to the 40th US President, Ronald Reagan, will take place in Tbilisi&#8217;s Rica Square on Nov. 23, the day of the 8th anniversary of Georgia&#8217;s Rose Revolution, as well as St. George&#8217;s Day (&#8220;Giorgoba&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling of the monument is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. An excerpt from a speech by Ronald Reagan (&#8220;Each generation must take care to preserve freedom&#8221;) will be inscribed in English and Georgian on the statue&#8217;s pedestal.<\/p>\n<p>The bronze sculpture depicts Reagan sitting on a bench. Anyone will be able to sit down next him and pose for a photo-op. The monument was moved to Rica Park on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture is by Georgian sculptor Avtandil Monaselidze, who worked on the piece for 3 years, reports Gruzya (&#8220;Georgia&#8221;) Online.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Reagan was president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.<\/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 official unveiling of the monument to the 40th US President, Ronald Reagan, will take place in Tbilisi&#8217;s Rica Square on Nov. 23.<!-- 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":143003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10256,34874,34873,34872,14116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143094"}],"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=143094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}