{"id":9412,"date":"2016-02-20T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=9412"},"modified":"2016-02-20T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T13:53:10","slug":"chinese-new-year-year-of-the-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=9412","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year: Year of the Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9414 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/files\/2016\/04\/blog-2-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-2-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-2-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-2-405x270.png 405w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-2.png 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9416 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/files\/2016\/02\/blog-1-300x209.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/blog-1-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/blog-1-768x534.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/blog-1-388x270.png 388w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/blog-1.png 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>2016 is the year of the monkey and London held quite a celebration for this Chinese New Year. People of all ages and backgrounds were in attendance\u00a0and it was\u00a0exciting to\u00a0experience the largest Chinese New Year celebration outside of Asia. With events being held in Trafalgar Square and nearby China Town there was an abundance of things to see and do, as people rang\u00a0in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>It was a very busy scene where the celebrations were being held, with everyone coming out to take part. I was able to try a few different foods and get a glimpse of the traditional dragon dance on the streets of China Town. Seeing the amount of people who were there to celebrate,\u00a0I could tell that London was a great place to be for the year of the monkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 is the year of the monkey and London held quite a celebration for this Chinese New Year. People of all ages and backgrounds were in attendance\u00a0and it was\u00a0exciting to\u00a0experience the largest Chinese New Year celebration outside of Asia. With events being held in Trafalgar Square and nearby China Town there was an abundance of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/?p=9412\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/goglobal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}