{"id":161680,"date":"2012-02-15T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T11:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=161680"},"modified":"2012-02-15T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T11:34:35","slug":"oppositionist-aram-manukyan-on-vartan-oskanians-intention-to-join-prosperous-armenia-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/15\/oppositionist-aram-manukyan-on-vartan-oskanians-intention-to-join-prosperous-armenia-party.html","title":{"rendered":"Oppositionist Aram Manukyan on Vartan Oskanian&#8217;s Intention to Join Prosperous Armenia Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian National Congress (HAK) member Aram Manukyan today called former foreign minister of Armenia Vartan Oskanian&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/14\/vartan-oskanian-confirms-intention-to-join-prosperous-armenia-party.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">recently stated intention<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> to join the Prosperous Armenia party (BHK) &#8220;a result of Oskanian&#8217;s late blooming&#8221; and &#8220;a flippant move.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s regretful that a man matures at 60 years old and realizes that he belongs to the [political] force. To be in politics for 20\u201325 years and then realize that you belong to the party is not normal. The same happened also in [Armenian Prime Minister] Tigran Sargsyan&#8217;s case,&#8221; he said, referring to Sargsyan joining the ruling Republican Party of Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Oskanian wanting to become a BHK member is at the behest of former president Robert Kocharian, Manukyan urged the journalist not &#8220;to mention his name&#8221; (referring to Kocharian).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t matter who gave the directive \u2014 I don&#8217;t want to know. What&#8217;s important is that a man is a toy, if a person needs to have an owner. There&#8217;s a saying: what should the slave owner do if the slave wants to remain a slave?&#8221; he said.<\/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>&#8220;It&#8217;s regretful that a man matures at 60 years old and realizes that he belongs to the [political] force. To be in politics for 20\u201325 years and&#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":98724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161680"}],"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=161680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}