{"id":58056,"date":"2018-04-26T21:07:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T04:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=58056"},"modified":"2018-04-26T21:07:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T04:07:20","slug":"governor-brown-issues-proclamation-declaring-day-of-remembrance-of-the-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=58056","title":{"rendered":"Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued a proclamation declaring April 24, 2018 as \u201cA Day of.<br \/>\n Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide\u201d in the State of California.  The text of the proclamation is below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-armenian-genocide-remembrance-640x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-armenian-genocide-remembrance-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-armenian-genocide-remembrance-640x1024-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-armenian-genocide-remembrance-640x1024-570x912.jpg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-armenian-genocide-remembrance-640x1024-150x240.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-armenian-genocide-remembrance-640x1024-313x500.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PROCLAMATION<\/p>\n<p>Between 1915 and 1923, Armenians were subjected to torture, starvation, mass murder and exile from their historic homeland. 1.5 million lost their lives. The Armenian Genocide, also known as the \u201cFirst Genocide of the Twentieth Century,\u201d represented a deliberate attempt by the Ottoman Empire to eliminate all traces of a thriving, noble civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian communities all over the world commemorate this tragedy on April 24. On this day, we honor the victims and survivors of the genocide, and reaffirm our commitment to preventing future atrocities from being committed against any people.<\/p>\n<p>NOW THEREFORE I, EDMUND G. BROWN JR., Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim April 24, 2018, as \u201cDay of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of California to be affixed this 23rd day of April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________<\/p>\n<p>EDMUND G. BROWN JR.<\/p>\n<p>Governor of California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued a proclamation declaring April 24, 2018 as \u201cA Day of. Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide\u201d in the State of California. The text of the proclamation is below: PROCLAMATION Between 1915 and 1923, Armenians were subjected to torture, starvation, mass murder and exile from their historic homeland. 1.5 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-armenian-genocide-remembrance-640x1024.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}