{"id":44640,"date":"2010-09-01T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/01\/hugs-were-free-in-yerevan-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2010-09-01T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T01:30:00","slug":"hugs-were-free-in-yerevan-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/01\/hugs-were-free-in-yerevan-yesterday.html","title":{"rendered":"Hugs were Free in Yerevan Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Passers-by on Yerevan&#8217;s Northern Avenue yesterday became witnesses of an interesting event. A group of young people, having announced their intentions beforehand on the popular social networking site Facebook, were standing around with posters that read &#8220;Free Hugs!&#8221; in both Armenian and English; naturally, they were staging a public event in the Armenian capital that&#8217;s celebrated around the world as the Free Hugs Campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The Free Hugs Campaign is a social movement involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places. According to the official Free Hugs Campaign website, &#8220;Free Hugs is the real life controversial story of Juan Mann, a man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The Free Hugs event in Yerevan yesterday can be viewed on the videos section of Epress.am.<\/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>Passers-by on Yerevan&#8217;s Northern Avenue yesterday&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[11040],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44640"}],"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=44640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}