{"id":251232,"date":"2014-03-26T20:54:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=251232"},"modified":"2014-03-26T20:54:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:54:48","slug":"armenian-man-broke-into-parliament-to-earn-money-for-his-family-at-the-cost-his-blood-news-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/26\/armenian-man-broke-into-parliament-to-earn-money-for-his-family-at-the-cost-his-blood-news-am.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Man Broke Into Parliament to &#8220;Earn Money for His Family at the Cost his Blood&#8221;: News.am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">I have a right to earn money for my kids at the cost of my blood, said a man by the name of Ashot who broke into Armenia&#39;s National Assembly today and attempted to commit suicide, reports local news provider <a href=\"http:\/\/news.am\/eng\/news\/200953.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>News.am<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe demanded to see the president. &ldquo;I have written petitions a thousand times, asked for money for food, but no one responds to my plea. So, I will stab myself,&rdquo; the man stated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAshot said that being in a desperate financial situation, he had decided to kill himself at the parliament entrance so that senior officials could provide assistance to his family, particularly his two children who are in a children&rsquo;s home. &nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAshot claimed his only source of income is selling small religious icons. &ldquo;Had they not helped me here [at the parliament], given [me] money, I would have killed myself,&rdquo; Ashot said adding, however, that he did not know who had sent him the money. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSecurity personnel did not tell reporters how much money they had given to Ashot so he would leave.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><strong>Photo credit<\/strong>: News.am<\/em><\/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>Ashot said that being in a desperate financial situation, he had decided to kill himself at the parliament entrance so that senior officials could provide assistance to his family&#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":251219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[54330,13813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251232"}],"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=251232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}