{"id":769,"date":"2016-02-19T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2016-02-19T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T13:00:23","slug":"lunar-new-year-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/creative-artistic\/lunar-new-year-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Year-of-the-Monkey-2016-Redux.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-770\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-770\" src=\"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Year-of-the-Monkey-2016-Redux-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Year of the Monkey (2016 Redux)\" width=\"359\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDid you completely miss out on the Lunar New Year festivities earlier this month? Are you looking for a way to celebrate the Year of the Monkey or are you just looking for an excuse to celebrate something. Well, if you are, you\u2019re in luck because the festivities haven\u2019t ended yet. In fact, the Chinese Folk Art Workshop is hosting a Chinese New Year Celebration at the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts tomorrow (Saturday, February 20, 2016) from 4:30 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. This event will allow you to see a group of talented dancers in colorful costumes performing a series of traditional Chinese dances that incorporate elements of Chinese mythology and philosophy. For more information on the Chinese New Year Celebration at the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, which has a suggested donation of $7.00, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibaboston.org\/blog\/event\/2016-chinese-new-year-celebration\/?instance_id=14449\">Inquilinos Boricuas En Acci\u00f3n (IBA) Boston Event page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epicfireworks\/24400751522\/\">EpicFireworks<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/visualhunt.com\">Visual Hunt<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you completely miss out on the Lunar New Year festivities earlier this month? Are you looking for a way to celebrate the Year of the Monkey or are you just looking for an excuse to celebrate something. Well, if you are, you\u2019re in luck because the festivities haven\u2019t ended yet. In fact, the Chinese &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/creative-artistic\/lunar-new-year-redux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lunar New Year Redux&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,6],"tags":[309,311,401,669,802,803,1388,1463],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-area","category-creative-artistic","category-friday-fun","tag-chinese-folk-art-workshop","tag-chinese-new-year","tag-dancing","tag-iab","tag-lunar-new-year","tag-lunar-new-year-festival","tag-villa-victoria-center-for-the-arts","tag-year-of-the-monkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanmckinney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}