{"id":220899,"date":"2016-02-16T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=220899"},"modified":"2016-02-16T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:00:16","slug":"2016-lunar-new-year-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2016-lunar-new-year-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Lunar New Year Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-220899 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2016-lunar-new-year-celebrations\/lunar-new-year-pix-1-2\/'>Lunar-New-Year-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220915'>\n\t\t\t\tKids scurry to the stage to get lucky charms pulled out from a magic tube by a lady magician from China, one of the performers at the Lunar New Year celebrations last Saturday at the Paseo de Marianas. The event was organized jointly by the Chinese Association of Saipan, CNMI and the Korean Association of Saipan.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2016-lunar-new-year-celebrations\/lunar-new-year-pix-2-2\/'>Lunar-New-Year-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220917'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Chinese Association of Saipan had a dumpling-making booth at the festival.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2016-lunar-new-year-celebrations\/lunar-new-year-pix-3-2\/'>Lunar-New-Year-pix-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220918'>\n\t\t\t\tFor her finale, a Korean lady magician turns a wet napkin into confetti.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2016-lunar-new-year-celebrations\/lunar-new-year-pix-4-2\/'>Lunar-New-Year-pix-4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220919'>\n\t\t\t\tA \u201cface changing\u201d performer dances on stage.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2016-lunar-new-year-celebrations\/lunar-new-year-pix-5-2\/'>Lunar-New-Year-pix-5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220920'>\n\t\t\t\tWith a different face or mask on, the performer goes around the crowd to reveal another one of her faces.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2016-lunar-new-year-celebrations\/lunar-new-year-pix-6-2\/'>Lunar-New-Year-pix-6<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220921'>\n\t\t\t\tThe face changer reveals her true face\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2016-lunar-new-year-celebrations\/lunar-new-year-pix-7-2\/'>Lunar-New-Year-pix-7<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220922'>\n\t\t\t\tKorean Taekwondo moves were showcased by young Koreans.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2016-lunar-new-year-celebrations\/lunar-new-year-pix-8-2\/'>Lunar-New-Year-pix-8<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220923'>\n\t\t\t\tYoung Koreans feature and sell their traditional food.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2016-lunar-new-year-celebrations\/lunar-new-year-pix-9-2\/'>Lunar-New-Year-pix-9<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220924'>\n\t\t\t\tA Chinese dancer performs a traditional dance for the crowd. The second week of the joint Lunar New Year celebrations will be held on Feb. 20.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fotogalleria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}