{"id":18779,"date":"2012-06-24T08:09:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T12:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=18779"},"modified":"2012-06-08T11:16:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:16:44","slug":"philippine-american-friendship-committee-parade-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=18779","title":{"rendered":"Philippine American Friendship Committee Parade &#038; Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 24th 11~6pm<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Park, New Jersey<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/noid-PAFCOM_v3_flyer_2012.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[18779]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18780\" title=\"pafcom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/noid-PAFCOM_v3_flyer_2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Philippine-American Friendship Committee, Inc.&#8217;s (PAFCOM&#8217;s) mission is to foster Filipino-American unity through community-centered social, educational, and cultural events and programming, and to provide supportive services for the Filipino-American community of Jersey City and greater Hudson County. PAFCOM promotes and celebrates the richly diverse Filipino culture in an effort to build a strong community by bringing together people from different backgrounds and experiences.<\/p>\n<p>PAFCOM was founded in 1989 by Lito Gajilan, who felt strongly that the Filipino-American community needed a day to showcase its unity, and celebrate its culture through a lively celebration with decorated floats, folk dancing, traditional and contemporary music, regional cuisine, and local talent. The annual Philippine-American Friendship Day celebration has established \u00a0a legacy and is an event Jersey City and its residents look forward to every June. Annually, approximately 30,000 people celebrate Filipino-American pride. The parade is running in its 22nd year and it is one of the most celebrated and widely attended recurring Filipino-American events in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>For more info: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pafcom.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pafcom.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 24th 11~6pm Lincoln Park, New Jersey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18779","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=18779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18783,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18779\/revisions\/18783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}