{"id":658,"date":"2014-07-25T07:57:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/?p=658"},"modified":"2015-07-13T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T12:20:30","slug":"us-ambassador-visits-project-aragats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/2014\/07\/25\/us-ambassador-visits-project-aragats\/","title":{"rendered":"US Ambassador Visits Project ArAGATS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John A. Heffern, the Ambassador of the United States of America to Armenia, visited the excavations of Project ArAGATS this week. \u00a0Touring excavations at Gegharot Kurgans, Gegharot Fortress, and Tsaghkahovit, the Ambassador tweeted his experience on his twitter feed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  aligncenter\" style=\"border: 3px solid black;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BtN2Q2nCYAEz-dK.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Aragats Foundation archeology in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Armenia?src=hash\">#Armenia<\/a>. Ruben, Adam and Lori!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Heffern (@AmbHeffern) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbHeffern\/statuses\/491866816440852480\">July 23, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_659\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Ambassador.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-659\" class=\"size-large wp-image-659\" alt=\"Ambassador John A. Heffern with the Mayor of Gegharot Smbat Bayrakhtaryan at Gegharot Kurgan 3\" src=\"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Ambassador-1024x764.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ambassador John A. Heffern (l) with Mayor of Gegharot Smbat Bayrakhtaryan (r) at Gegharot Kurgan 3<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thank you Mr. Ambassador for giving your time and attention to Armenia&#8217;s archaeological heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John A. Heffern, the Ambassador of the United States of America to Armenia, visited the excavations of Project ArAGATS this week. \u00a0Touring excavations at Gegharot Kurgans, Gegharot Fortress, and Tsaghkahovit, the Ambassador tweeted his experience on his twitter feed: Aragats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/2014\/07\/25\/us-ambassador-visits-project-aragats\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}