{"id":8776,"date":"2015-04-26T18:53:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T22:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=8776"},"modified":"2015-04-28T19:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T23:00:48","slug":"armenian-genocide-1915-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=8776","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Genocide 1915 &#8211; 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sunday, April 26, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This weekend was the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. The horrific events were marked by commemorations around the world. \u00a0My son and I joined the centennial observance in New York City. \u00a0It began at St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral on 34th Street. \u00a0Buses arrived in the morning from Armenian communities in the northeastern part of our country. \u00a0People\u00a0filled the church and hundreds of family groups overflowed\u00a0onto the sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_2546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8777\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_2546.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2546\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0446.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full 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width=\"400\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0487.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8785\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0487.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0487\" width=\"261\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0493.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8786\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0493.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0493\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8787\" 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The horrific events were marked by commemorations around the world. \u00a0My son and I joined the centennial observance in New York City. \u00a0It began at St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral on 34th Street. \u00a0Buses arrived in the morning from Armenian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenian","category-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8798,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions\/8798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}