{"id":80923,"date":"2020-01-27T10:41:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=80923"},"modified":"2020-01-27T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:36:50","slug":"year-of-the-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/01\/27\/year-of-the-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of the Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/diversity-and-inclusion\/culture-and-identity-centers\/latinx-asian-and-native-american-affairs\/about\">Office of Latinx, Asian and Native American Affairs<\/a> hosted a celebration on Jan. 24 to welcome the 2020 Lunar New Year.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration featured a lion dance, a Chinese traditional dance performance, arts and crafts and free food samples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the biggest celebrated holiday and festivities in Asia,\u201d said Mia Honaker, coordinator of the Office of Latinx, Asian and Native American Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Honaker says the event allows Asian community members at Wright State an opportunity to celebrate their heritage and culture while letting everyone learn about the Lunar New Year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope Wright State students take away the fun and the culture,\u201d said Isabelle Hardesty, a junior international studies major. \u201cThere\u2019s more to life than what\u2019s in front of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State University Office of Latinx, Asian and Native American Affairs hosted a celebration to welcome the 2020 Lunar New Year. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/01\/27\/year-of-the-rat\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":80929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80945,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923\/revisions\/80945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}