{"id":269369,"date":"2015-11-18T13:09:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T09:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269369"},"modified":"2015-11-18T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T09:12:22","slug":"infuriated-citizen-tells-armenian-president-to-change-yourself-not-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/11\/18\/infuriated-citizen-tells-armenian-president-to-change-yourself-not-the-constitution.html","title":{"rendered":"Infuriated Citizen Tells Armenian President to &#8216;Change Yourself, Not the Constitution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">On Wednesday morning an elderly man blocked Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan&#39;s car in front of his mansion in Yerevan, demanding Sargsyan speak with him.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA video published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aravot.am\/2015\/11\/18\/629998\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Aravot.am<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;shows the man telling the president that &ldquo;courts do not function properly in Armenia,&rdquo; to which Sargsyan responds, &ldquo;Perhaps.&rdquo; When the annoyed citizen asks, &ldquo;What do you mean &ndash; &#39;perhaps&#39;,&rdquo; Sargsyan says &ldquo;the Constitution is currently being changed so that the courts would function.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OTs-jFbgPgw?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;You should change yourself, not the Constitution! Half of my family has fled [the country]; what should I do? Do you want&nbsp;to turn us into terrorists? [&hellip;] I have nothing to lose,&rdquo; the man says.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSerzh Sargsyan got into his car and drove away, while law enforcement officers tried to calm the indignant man down. &ldquo;How can I calm down? [&hellip;] They have stolen my country!&rdquo;<\/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>\u201cYou should change yourself! Half of my family has fled [the country]; what should I do? Do you want us to turn into terrorists? [\u2026] I have nothing to lose,\u201d the man says&#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":269366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13721,12336,11268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269369"}],"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=269369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}