{"id":49251,"date":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/953c3826-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","slug":"953c3839-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/953c3839-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwanzaa celebration on Dec. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of African and African-American will host this year&#8217;s celebration of Kwanzaa at 4:00 p.m. at the Manhoben Center on Sunday, Dec. 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Kwanzaa is an African-American celebration, which focuses on the traditional African values of family, community, responsibility, commerce and self-improvement.  Kwanzaa is a time for African-Americans to reaffirm their ties with their ancestors and their culture.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s founding in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa has come to be observed by over twenty million people.  This will be the third observance of Kwanzaa on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact John Davis at 233-3744, John Joyner at 234-1182 or Chaz Grayer at 234-0543.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of African and African-American will host this year&#8217;s celebration of Kwanzaa at 4:00 p.m. at the Manhoben Center on Sunday, Dec. 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49251","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=49251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}