{"id":4616,"date":"2018-10-28T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cachestudio.co\/pencenter\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2025-02-01T11:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T11:52:58","slug":"director-of-pen-america-in-tbilisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/2018\/10\/28\/director-of-pen-america-in-tbilisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of PEN America in Tbilisi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visiting Tbilisi this weekend, I am very pleased to meet new president of PEN Georgia, poet (and editor)&nbsp;<strong>Paata Shamugia<\/strong>. We at PEN America&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PENamerican\">@PENamerican<\/a>&nbsp;look forward to fruitful collaboration in defense of free expression, in the arts, literature, journalism and on-line!&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1uKeBwMdLT\">pic.twitter.com\/1uKeBwMdLT<\/a>Washington Director of PEN America Thomas O. Melia and president of Georgian PEN Paata Shamugia&nbsp;have held a meeting in Tbilisi to discuss the prospects of further cooperation and challanges regarding free speech and freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visiting Tbilisi this weekend, I am very pleased to meet new president of PEN Georgia, poet (and editor) Paata Shamugia. We at PEN America&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PENamerican\">@PENamerican<\/a>&nbsp;look forward to fruitful collaboration in defense of free expression, in the arts, literature, journalism and on-line! &#8211; wrote Melia on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visiting Tbilisi this weekend, I am very pleased to meet new president of PEN Georgia, poet (and editor)&nbsp;Paata&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"default","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5135,"href":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/5135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pengeorgia.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}