{"id":245338,"date":"2017-01-30T06:06:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=245338"},"modified":"2017-01-30T06:06:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T20:06:43","slug":"lunar-new-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lunar-new-year-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos by ERWIN ENCINARES<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-245338 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\/lunar-new-year-2017\/1-42\/'>1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-245349'>\n\t\t\t\tFireworks marked the lion dance at the Hyatt Regency Saipan lobby. Lighting fireworks on the Lunar New Year is a Chinese tradition that is believed to drive away evil spirits.\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\/lunar-new-year-2017\/2-39\/'>2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-245350'>\n\t\t\t\tMen play a drum, cymbals, and gongs to go with the lion dance.\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\/lunar-new-year-2017\/3-35\/'>3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-245351'>\n\t\t\t\tThe lions interact with the crowd of tourists as they perform a traditional lion dance at the Hyatt Regency Saipan lobby.\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\/lunar-new-year-2017\/4-34\/'>4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-245352'>\n\t\t\t\tA lion dance is believed to bring luck and fortune to businesses, which is why the lions usually enter the business establishment. A lion is seen entering Miyako, a restaurant at the Hyatt Regency 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\/lunar-new-year-2017\/5-35\/'>5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/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\/lunar-new-year-2017\/7-21\/'>7<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-245354'>\n\t\t\t\tThe lions \u201cplay\u201d with each other during the lion dance.\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\/lunar-new-year-2017\/8-14\/'>8<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-245355'>\n\t\t\t\tThe lions \u201crest\u201d after performing a lion dance at the Hyatt Regency Saipan lobby. The Chinese Association of Saipan troupe visited other establishments on Saipan last Saturday.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos by ERWIN ENCINARES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":245349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2164],"class_list":["post-245338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fotogalleria","tag-lunar-new-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245338","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}