{"id":16058,"date":"2012-01-14T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=16058"},"modified":"2012-01-14T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T00:13:07","slug":"parades-performances-to-mark-year-of-the-dragon-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=16058","title":{"rendered":"Parades, performances to mark year of the dragon in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/parades-performances-to-mark-year-of-the-dragon-in-north-america-from-nyc-to-vancouver\/2012\/01\/13\/gIQAamKnwP_story.html\">Washingtonpost<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to be in Asia to celebrate the arrival of the year of the dragon, Jan. 23. <!--more-->From New York City to Vancouver, there are parades, performances and other events marking the Lunar or Chinese New Year in many North American cities.<\/p>\n<p>In New York City, the Lunar New Year Parade &amp; Festival takes place Jan. 29 in Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown, 11:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. The event winds through parts of Lower Manhattan, including Little Italy, the Lower East Side and Mott and Canal streets in the heart of Chinatown; details on the route at <a href=\"http:\/\/betterchinatown.com\/LUNAR-NEW-YEAR-PARADE.php\">http:\/\/betterchinatown.com\/LUNAR-NEW-YEAR-PARADE.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the city\u2019s Flushing, Queens, neighborhood, which is also home to a large Asian population, a parade is scheduled for Feb. 4 kicking off at 11 a.m. Other holiday events include a Lunar New Year \u201cDance Sampler\u201d with performers from all over Asia, Feb. 4, 2 p.m. at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source from Washingtonpost You don\u2019t have to be in Asia to celebrate the arrival of the year of the dragon, Jan. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-up-to-date-news-on-everything-asian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16060,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058\/revisions\/16060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}