{"id":27488,"date":"2013-03-16T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=27488"},"modified":"2013-03-15T13:19:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:19:15","slug":"spring-into-norouz-celebrate-the-persian-new-year-family-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=27488","title":{"rendered":"Spring Into Norouz! Celebrate the Persian New Year Family Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>03\/16\/2013<br \/>\n725 Park Avenue, New York, New York<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-27489\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?attachment_id=27489\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/J-Hoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Norouz, the Persian New Year, marks the beginning of spring. Discover the spirit of Norouz with traditional music, dance and crafts from Central Asia and Iran. Enjoy music and storytelling with Aitak Ajangzad; shadow puppet and folklore games with Maryam Mehrjui; J-Hoon Music and Dance Ensemble, a Kurdish youth dance company from New York City, will introduce the joyous and vibrant culture of the Kurdish people of Western Iran through a colorful display of song and dance at 2:30 pm.<br \/>\nPresented in association with Pardis for Children.<br \/>\nOngoing activities, 1:00 pm &#8211; 4:00 pm<br \/>\n\u2014 Discover the haft-seen table, a Persian tradition for celebrating the New Year.<br \/>\n\u2014 Decorate eggs and grow your own sprouts!<br \/>\n\u2014 Calligraphy with Fahim Somani and His Highness the Aga Khan Council for the Northeastern United States<br \/>\nFamily Programs at Asia Society are supported by<br \/>\nPart of CelebrASIA NYC, a collaboration among leading cultural institutions to introduce children to Asian festivals and themes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/events\/spring-norouz-celebrate-persian-new-year-family-day-0\">website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/16\/2013 725 Park Avenue, New York, New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27488","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\/27488","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27491,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27488\/revisions\/27491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}